Daedalus And Icarus, After Andrea Sacchi Circa 1700

Daedalus and Icarus, large oil on canvas circa 1700 after the Italian painter Andrea Sacchi.
The canvas is in good condition, small losses and restorations of use. Relined fairly recently. Without frame.

The myth of Daedalus is an ancient myth that tells the story of a Greek architect and engineer named Daedalus. Daedalus is commissioned by King Minos to build a labyrinth to lock up the Minotaur, a monster half bull and half man. After completing his task, Daedalus and his son Icarus are locked in the labyrinth by Minos. To escape, Daedalus makes feather wings that he attaches to his arms and sticks to Icarus' back using wax. The proud Icarus, who wants to fly better and higher than his father, gets too close to the sun, which melts the wax and takes off his wings. Icarus falls into the sea and kills himself. Daedalus, meanwhile, manages to escape and return to his homeland.
The myth of Daedalus is a myth that speaks of ingenuity and creativity. Daedalus is an architect and engineer who was able to build a complex labyrinth. The myth shows that, even in the face of insurmountable difficulties, Daedalus was able to find a solution to escape. The myth also highlights the dangers of pride and arrogance in sons. Icarus, trying to fly better than his father, paid with his life for his lack of caution.

Andrea Sacchi (born November 30, 1599 in Nettuno, in the province of Rome, in Lazio and died in the same city on June 21, 1661) is an Italian painter of the Baroque movement, active in Rome.
His style influenced a generation of artists including the painters Nicolas Poussin and Giovanni Battista Passeri, the sculptors Alessandro Algardi and François Duquesnoy and his biographer and contemporary Giovanni Bellori.
Andrea Sacchi was the son of Benedetto Sacchi, a minor painter. He was sent to the school of Giuseppe Cesari, known as il Cavalier D’Arpino, where he learned to paint by copying the works of Raphael, Polidoro da Caravaggio, statues and ancient marbles.
He entered the studio of Francesco Albani, whose last student he was and who introduced him to the brothers Agostino, Annibale and Lodovico Carracci.
He left for Rome in 1621, where he spent most of his life. With Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669), whose rival he was, he was active in the circle of Cassiano Dal Pozzo and Cardinal Antonio Barberini (1569-1646), who commissioned him for the Capuchin church and the Barberini Palace.
In 1628, under the direction of Pietro da Cortona, he worked with Andrea Camassei (1602-1649) for the decoration of the gallery of the property of Tumoleto di Fassano, which Cardinal Giulio Cesare Sacchetti (1586-1663) had purchased in 1620 from the Florentine Vincenzo Mazzingli in Castel Fusano.
It seems that a controversy opposed him to Pietro da Cortona, after which he travelled to Venice and Parma and studied the works of Correggio.
Two of his major works are in the Vatican.