Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel, whose two sons were also artists, is known for his panoramic landscapes and genre paintings of peasant life. "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" is unusual for Brueghel in that it treats a mythological subject, albeit with a peasant figure in the center foreground (and in fact the attribution of the painting has been cast into doubt). Only Icarus’ legs are visible as he plunges into the sea, having ignored his father’s advice not to fly too close to the sun. The painting draws some of its details from the story of Icarus and Daedalus in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and it in turn inspired W.H. Auden’s Musée des Beaux Arts. Used singly or paired with Auden’s poem, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus could frame and focus a discussion of how we respond to the suffering of others.