艺术流派
Unknown Movement
创作媒介
Unknown Medium
作品信息
艺术家
Piero di Cosimo
创作年代
1505
地点
Florence, Italy
作品描述
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. 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.