Abstract
The novelist and graphic artist Felix Timmermans is one of the most iconic figures of the traditional Belgian Flanders. His interest in the old Flemish masters led him to write a fictional biography of Peter Brueghel the Elder, in which he develops a theory regarding the lack of Italian influence on Brueghel’s work, based on an original interpretation of the painting “The Fall of Icarus”. Like the old masters, Timmermans situates biblical stories in a contemporary and familiar setting. Using themes from Brueghel’s paintings (the yawner, the magpie) he makes clear how one should look at our world.
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