# The Forest Fire

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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](/source/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](/source/Lucretius)'s *[On the Nature of Things](/source/De_rerum_natura).*[3]

## Further reading

- [*The Forest Fire* by Piero Cosimo](http://www.andrewgrahamdixon.com/archive/itp-181-the-forest-fire-by-piero-di-cosimo.html)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Piero di Cosimo (1461 - 1522): The Forest Fire"](http://www.ashmolean.org/php/makepage.php?db=wapaintings&view=llisti&all=&arti=Piero+di+Cosimo,&titl=&mat=&prov=&sour=&acno=&park=&strt=1&what=Search&cpos=1&s1=artist&s2=mainid&s3=&dno=25). Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. Retrieved 19 August 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["ITP 181: The Forest Fire by Piero di Cosimo"](https://web.archive.org/web/20110912223645/http://www.andrewgrahamdixon.com/archive/readArticle/172). Andrew Graham-Dixon. Archived from [the original](http://www.andrewgrahamdixon.com/archive/readArticle/172) on 12 September 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Geronimus, Dennis (31 January 2007). *Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange*. Yale University Press. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0300109115](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0300109115).

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