Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.

Cobb in the film version of Blatty’s novel, Lt. Brought to life by the brilliant character actor Lee J. Kinderman, conducts spiritual warfare alongside Father Damien Karras in William Peter Blatty’s blockbuster terror tale, The Exorcist. The capital city’s most famous spook hunter, Lt. dicks are best at tackling spectral evidence and crimes involving otherworldly antagonists. But, insofar as 20th-century novelists are concerned, D.C. Sure, the men and women of the Metropolitan Police work all the kinds of cases one would expect to encounter in a big city - murder, arson, rape, and robbery. Contrary to the Ovid text, which evokes a day of bright sun, the sky is cloudy and the sea choppy.D.C.

A city is visible to the back of the composition, with two small figures walking on the beach, probably Daedalus and Icarus before starting their flight. The final picture, now in the Madrid Prado, was painted by Jacob Peter Gowy and is much more anecdotal than Rubens’ sketch. This strict placing forms an exception, as Rubens’ mythological works do not appear to have been arranged according to any pre-established concept. Archive documents tell us that these two paintings with a similar theme were placed facing each other in the first room on the ground floor of the Spanish royal hunting pavilion. This sketch represents the destiny of man, as does Rubens’s “Fall of Phaethon”, also conserved in the museum. This play of light and shadow allows the artist both to place Icarus in the forefront of the picture and to insist on the vulnerability of his flesh.

Icarus is exposed in full light, whilst Daedalus’ body is handled in darker tones. The painter confers a highly human dimension to his work by representing the painful loss of a son.Īt the same time Rubens concentrates on the movement of the two bodies, contrasting with the calmness of the sea and the mute intensity of the sun. In it he chooses to illustrate the most dramatic moment of Ovid’s narrative, when Daedalus looks towards Icarus falling headlong into the void. “The Fall of Icarus” is another of the sketches that Peter Paul Rubens produced from 1636 onwards for the decoration of the Torre de la Parada. Peter Paul Rubens, “The Fall of Icarus”, 1636, Oil on Wood, 27 x 27 cm, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

Moon of the Wolf by Leslie H. Whitten Jr.