The Dance of the Hours, Gaetano Previati
The painting shows twelve female figures representing the hours and mythologically personifying the seasons. Set in cosmic space flooded with light between the Sun and the Earth, they dance in a circle that alludes to the constant and never-ending succession of day and night. The dance thus becomes an allegory of time as the law that governs life. As presented in Divisionist painting, it also suggests the idea of a universe perceived as pure light and pure music, a recurrent concept in Symbolism .
