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Title:Forest Fire By Piero Di Cosimo
Author:Catherine Whistler & David Bomford
ISBN:1854441183 : 9781854441188
Illustrations:colour & b/w illus
Format:Paperback
Size:200x200mm
Pages:25
Weight: .085 Kg.
Published:Ashmolean Museum - March 1999
List Price: 3.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:High Renaissance: c1500-1530: Painting & paintings: Individual artists


Piero Di Cosimo (1461/62--1522) was characterised in Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists (1550) as an eccentric, who lived on a diet of hard-boiled eggs, and hated the sound of children crying, men coughing, and friars chanting. Yet Piero was a successful artist in Florence, celebrated for his imaginative and often unorthodox treatment of classical themes, and for his fascination with nature. The Forest Fire in the Ashmolean Museum is one of his most beautiful and enigmatic pictures.