Avond

A group of well-dressed figures sits at a dinner table while a servant in the foreground pours wine from a raised jug. To the right, an intimate couple embraces, and a musician plays a lute in the background, capturing the social atmosphere of the evening hours. In the upper right corner, a small window reveals the deities Mercury and Diana presiding over a landscape, symbolizing the astrological and mythological transition into night.

This work is part of a series on the 'Four Times of Day,' a common Renaissance theme that linked human activity to the cosmic order and planetary influences. The presence of Hesperus (the evening star) and the planetary gods suggests the Neoplatonic idea that specific hours of the day govern different human temperaments and social behaviors.