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The canvas captures the moment of spontaneous human combustion—a terrifying and still scientifically unexplained phenomenon in which a living person bursts into flames without apparent cause. The victim here is a young girl who, strikingly, shows no signs of agony; instead, she appears to be transforming into the flame itself, evoking Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
