| Arcimboldi's Vertumnus, on this month's cover, was the most famous work of art in Rudolph's Prague. |
| This picture is now called the Nuptials of vertumnus and Pomona. |
| There are no Pomona and vertumnus but the gardener's spade and hoe. |
| It is understandable that Vertumnus, the god of vegetation, was offered wreaths of flowers and the first garden fruits. |
| Van der Hamen's Offering to Flora and Pomona and Vertumnus are among his mythological works, the latter read by Jordan as an allegory of marriage. |
| Significantly, the author has chosen as symbol of his work Vertumnus, a native Roman deity who presided over change and mutability, instead of the canonical Proteus. |
