The Fall of Icarus - when painting & writing meets

Last week all of us were assign to find the painting called "The Fall of Icarus" and so we did. But the problem was there were too many versions of the drawing which leads to everyone saying their's are the correct one.
Since I'm one of the people who went looking for the drawing first without reading the text first, i had in mind that the drawing should focus on Icarus and his father, Daedalus as the main subject of the drawing. Eventually, i found a drawing by Peter Paul Ruben which suited my description. And yes, keeping in mind that the fall was the major part of the story, made me feel that i had found the drawing..and saying to others who chose Bruegel's painting was wrong because the only part of Icarus in the painting was his legs.
However, after reading the story and also discussing the painting in class (in which my judgment is wrong..it was Bruegel's), my understanding about the whole painting and the fall became different. It then occurs to me, the fall wasn't that important than i thought it was. It made sense that only a tiny portion of the canvas shows Icarus (his legs to be exact) and more of the shepard, farmer and fishermen even though the painting was named after Icarus.
The fall of Icarus wasn't important to anyone..it was just another death and the only person who suffered from the incident was Daedalus for he will never be a father no more. But to the shepard, farmer and fishermen, they didn't even bother to take notice of the fall. That's why in Bruegel's painting, only the legs were shown in a very small portion indeed. It's to show insignificant.
Personally, after doing this activity, i feel it can be applied in the classroom especially with students who are more artistic at mind. They might be slow in understanding the story by reading it but by looking at the painting and reading the text, they will get a larger understanding of the whole event by understanding the painting. So, when painting and writing meets, they will be companion to help in the process of understanding when we have a class with different sides of intelligence.