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Where his contemporary Frederic Leighton had painted Icarus mid-preparation, wings still intact and future still golden, Draper chooses the aftermath: the boy's body washed onto rock, his bronzed skin still bearing the scorch of his proximity to the sun, cradled by a trio of grieving sea nymphs. It is a scene of epic failure rendered achingly, gorgeously beautiful, moralising, sentimental and unmistakably sensual all at once. 🎨\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe great feathered wings, based on the plumage of the bird-of-paradise, spill across the canvas in warm ochres and burnished reds. Draper worked in liquid, almost molten light effects without ever sacrificing form, and the dying rays of a setting sun catch distant cliffs in the background, a quiet, devastating reminder of how quickly a golden moment passes. 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