El estio, estacion risuena, y tan util como hermosa · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: El estio, estacion risuena, y tan util como hermosa
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Ancient Rome; Italy
Description: This image represents the season of summer. In the Golden Age of civilization, Spring was eternal. During the Silver Age, however, the god Jupiter shortened spring and created the four seasons. There is a woman standing to the left of the center of the image in the forest with a piece of clothing draped around her arm and in front of her pelvic region. There are small, winged cherubs surrounding the woman and flying above her in the large tree.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24923
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Dn. Francisco Crivell y Adornados con Estampas finas por D. Jose Assensio [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian With Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell and Decorated with Fine Prints by D. Jose Assensio]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1805)
Image: mta_24923_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Summer; Seasons; Mythology; Silver Age; Jupiter