Summer

A muscular male figure personifying Summer stands in a landscape, adorned with a wreath of ripened wheat. He holds a small bundle of stalks in his raised right hand while standing beside a large sheaf of harvested grain. Across the top of the frame, the symbols for the three summer zodiac signs align with the Latin title.

This work illustrates the Renaissance concept of 'macrocosm-microcosm' correspondences, specifically the relationship between the solar cycle, the zodiac, and the terrestrial seasons. It reflects the natural philosophy of the era which viewed the movements of the stars (Cancer, Leo, and Virgo) as the direct governors of the Earth's agricultural and elemental changes.