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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 combines real animals as well as made up animals. It was inspired by Book 5 of Lucretius’s On the Nature of Things
