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spring is the second longest season after summer.” The difference in the seasons’ lengths is due to the earth’s changing speeds during its yearly orbit. “The earth moves most quickly at the beginning of the year (in early January) and most slowly at midyear (in early July).”
Spring is a transition period from the weather extremes of winter and summer and “is the chief season of planting and germination, when life, light, and apparent order in the universe once more prevail over what the ancients regarded as the chaos of the dark, barren winter season.”
The influence of spring can be found in mythology, folklore and art. “Ancient sculptors often depicted spring as a female figure carrying flowers. Early Christians regarded the seasons as symbolic of the course of human life, seeing spring as rebirth or resurrection after the death that winter seemed to symbolize.”
The seasons continued to figure largely in art through the Middle Ages, especially in the ‘T3th century with the beautifully carved depictions of the seasons and the individual months in the French cathedrals of Paris, Chartres, and Reims. These spring scenes reveal the harsh realities of the laborer’s everyday tasks in preparing the fields for cultivation and dressing the vineyards.”
Later, renaissance artists treated spring in a lighter way. “Botticelli’s famous painting Priniavera is a prime
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