《四季》系列中的夏天（Aestas） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	《四季》系列中的夏天（Aestas）
品名（英）	Summer (Aestas) from the series The Seasons
入馆年号	1926年，26.72.23
策展部门	绘画和印刷品（Drawings and Prints）
创作者	Pieter van der Heyden【1525 至 1569】【荷兰人】
创作年份	公元 1570
创作地区
分类	印刷品（Prints）
尺寸	页: 8 7/8 x 11 5/16 英寸 (22.5 x 28.7 厘米)
介绍（中）	这张图片被认为是四季系列中的一个，它代表了传统上与夏季月份相关的活动：6月的水果采摘、7月的干草收获和8月的玉米收获。它补充了《春天》（1570年）的雕刻，这是该系列中唯一一部在布鲁格尔设计之后完成的作品。彼得·范德海登（Pieter van der Heyden）在布鲁格尔（Bruegel）的绘画之后进行了雕刻，其中人物被绘制成左手，从而在反转的印刷图像中变成右手。在北欧的手稿、绘画和印刷品中，季节的描绘很常见。布鲁格尔用他敏锐的眼光观察幽默的细节，以及他完美的性格塑造，将夏天描绘成一个令人口渴的劳动时期，尽管有些混乱。前景中热情饮酒者的脚的大胆主题与图像的下边界重叠，这突出了其行为的肆无忌惮。这些农民工的行为似乎有一种超越正常习惯或良好品味的倾向。在下面的边界，铭文的中心部分写着"夏天，青春的形象"，简洁地将季节的发展与人类的年龄联系起来。
介绍（英）	Conceived of as one of a four-part series on the seasons, this image represents the activities traditionally associated with the summer months: fruit picking for June, hay harvesting for July, and corn harvesting for August. It complements the engraving of Spring (1570), the only other in the series to have been completed after Bruegel's design. Pieter van der Heyden did the engraving after Bruegel's drawing, in which figures were rendered left-handed so as to be right-handed in the reversed print image. Depictions of the seasons were common in Northern European manuscripts, paintings, and prints. Bruegel used his sharp eye for humorous detail and his pitch-perfect characterization to portray summer as a time of thirst-inducing, if somewhat disorganized, labor. The daring motif of having the foot of the enthusiastic drinker in the foreground overlap the lower border of the image serves to underscore the unbridled nature of his behavior. The actions of these peasant workers have the tendency, the image seems to suggest, to overstep the boundaries of proper habits or good taste. In the border below, the central portion of the inscription reads "Summer, image of youth," succinctly associating the progression of the seasons with the ages of man.