The Silver Age
Artist: Jacopo Zucchi (Florentine, 1541-1590)
Date: c. 1575
Medium: Oil on panel
Collection: Uffizi Galleries, Florence, Italy
Description
Ovid relates that in the Silver Age, Jupiter took control of the world and divided the year into four seasons. Then, for the first time, men needed a shelter and had to cultivate the land to procure supplies for the winter.














