Abstract
Domenico Campagnola was a sixteenth century artist who worked in Venice and Padua; it can be presumed that he experienced the Friuli earthquake of 1511. A drawing by him has recently surfaced, representing the collapse of a city in an earthquake. Examining the structural and seismological evidence it is identified here as an artist's fantasy. This is consistent with the artistic interest in landscape for its most tumultuous and tempestuous qualities.
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