Minneapolis Institute of Art

The Pleasures of the Seasons: Spring

Johann Georg Platzer

Date

c. 1730

Medium

Oil on copper

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

These people enjoying the pleasures of spring—playing music, dancing, and canoodling—are the 18th-century equivalent of a bunch of college kids on spring break. Above the festive musicians and the dancing couple at the center, sculpted putti cavort on a large urn. At the left, lovemaking is more urgent, as a young couple embrace below a sculpture of Venus crowned by Cupid. Venus, the goddess of love, is traditionally associated with springtime. Austria, Europe

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