Allegory of Summer. 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis). 덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague)

Allegory of Summer. 마우리츠하위스(Mauritshuis).

덴하그(Den Haag, 헤이그:Hague). 네덜란드(Netherland)

Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem

Allegory of Summer

c. 1680

This painting is intended to be hung up high; over a door, for example. It was part of a series of four seasons that came from a house on the Herengracht canal in Amsterdam. This one represents summer. Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain that ripens in the summer, is standing in the centre.

 

Berchem is known mainly as a painter of Italianate landscapes, although he also painted decorative scenes, such as this allegory.

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