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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

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. 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.

Further reading

• The Forest Fire by Piero Cosimo

References

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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