This fanciful sketch depicts explosions at Monte Nuovo in 1538, the latest eruption in the Campi Flegrei caldera. The week-long eruption produced a new 100-m-high cinder cone, Monte Nuovo. Small pyroclastic flows during the opening stage of the eruption traveled a few hundred m from the cone. An explosion on the last day of the eruption killed 24 people who had climbed onto the cone.

From the collection of Maurice and Katia Krafft.

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Galleries: Volcano Art

Campi Flegrei