The Forest Fire EAX.4381 perhaps in Urbino or in

perhaps in Urbino or in Florence

looking from the south-west corner

with inscriptions in French and a variety of flags and banners identifying the protagonists and locations

that behind it by Alfonso Alberghetti in 1559

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

The Forest Fire EAX.4381 perhaps in Urbino or inRenowned 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