PONTORMO, Jacopo
(b. 1494, Pontormo, d. 1557, Firenze)

Lunette fresco (detail)

1519-21
Fresco
Villa Medici, Poggio a Caiano

The detail shows the right side of the lunette with the fertility goddess Ceres wearing a wreath of stalks of grain and various red flowers. Grain and poppy flowers are characteristic attributes of Ceres. Below are the personifications of Summer and Spring. (The Italian words for summer and spring, 'estate' and 'primavera' are both feminine nouns.)