Bruegel, Monet, and Us “…once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and woman, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now are gone, one generation vanishing after another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shorty by gone….” -George Trevelyan The genesis of this story grew out from my long-term attraction to and consideration of two paintings: Pieter Brueghel’s sixteenth century Fall of Icarus, and Clau...