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The Golden Age
Adriaen van de Velde1664
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
This drawing illustrates a passage from the Metamorphoses by the Latin author Ovid, a hefty poem describing the creation of the world and the history of man. During the Golden Age man lived in a paradisiacal world eating fruits from trees and bushes. Neither discord and anger, nor crime and punishment existed there.
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- Title: The Golden Age
- Creator: Velde, Adriaen van de
- Date Created: 1664
- Physical Dimensions: papier
- Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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