The Forest Fire
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| 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 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 combines real animals as well as made up animals. It was inspired by Book 5 of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things[3]
Further reading
References
- ↑ "Piero di Cosimo (1461 - 1522): The Forest Fire". Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
- ↑ "ITP 181: The Forest Fire by Piero di Cosimo". Andrew Graham-Dixon. Retrieved 2012-08-19.
- ↑ Geronimus, Dennis (2007-01-31). Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300109113.
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