The Forest Fire EAX.4381 written in cuneiform script

written in cuneiform script

The panel painted for a luxurious domestic setting

The drawing shows a view up the Grand Canal from a point roughly in the middle of the opening into the Bacino di San Marco

exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856

now in the Metropolitan Museum

The Forest Fire EAX.4381 written in cuneiform scriptRenowned for his originality and inventiveness, Piero di Cosimo painted many spalliera panels with themes from classical literature. Dating from c. 1505, A420 may have been one of a series described by Vasari as painted for Francesco del Pugliese. Two other panels of The Hunt and The Return from the Hunt, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, are thematically related but seem to have been painted in the 1490s. All three are concerned with the