The Forest Fire

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The Forest Fire
Piero di Cosimo 012.jpg
Artist Piero di Cosimo
Year1505
MediumOil on panel
Dimensions71 cm× 202 cm(28 in× 80 in)
Location Ashmolean Museum, Oxford [1]

The Forest Fire (c. 1505) is a painting by Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo. The painting depicts a variety of frightened animals attempting to escape a forest fire. The painting has a lot of activity, at the center of which is the raging fire itself. [2] One of the earliest landscape paintings of the Renaissance, it includes made up animals as well as real ones. It was inspired by Book 5 of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Piero di Cosimo (1461 - 1522): The Forest Fire". Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  2. ↑ "ITP 181: The Forest Fire by Piero di Cosimo". Andrew Graham-Dixon. Archived from the original on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2012.
  3. ↑ Geronimus, Dennis (31 January 2007). Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange. Yale University Press. ISBN   978-0300109115.
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