Ceres

The goddess Ceres is shown in a three-quarter view within an oval frame, her hair entwined with stalks of wheat and her arms cradling a large horn of plenty. To her left, a young attendant looks up toward her while holding a curved harvesting sickle against a background of a sunlit rural landscape. The surrounding frame is embellished with winged reptilian creatures at the top corners and harvested vegetables at the bottom.

This image allegorizes the shift from the primitive 'Age of Acorns' to the civilized 'Age of Agriculture,' a common theme in Renaissance Neoplatonism regarding the refinement of human nature. As the central figure of the Eleusinian Mysteries, Ceres represents the hidden generative powers of the earth and the transition from wilderness to ordered society through the gift of grain.