The Forest Fire
Painting by Piero di Cosimo
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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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| Artist | Piero di Cosimo |
| Year | 1505 |
| Medium | Oil on panel |
| Dimensions | 71 cm × 202 cm (28 in × 80 in) |
| Location | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford[1] |
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