The Forest Fire

Painting by Piero di Cosimo

The Forest Fire

Artist| Piero di Cosimo
Year| 1505
Medium| Oil on panel
Dimensions| 71 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]

## Further reading

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* The Forest Fire by Piero Cosimo

## References

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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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