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 (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 combines real animals as well as made up animals. It was inspired by Book 5 of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things. [3]
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 (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 combines real animals as well as made up animals. It was inspired by Book 5 of Lucretius's On the Nature of Things. [3]