Artwork: Fruits of jealousy ( the Silver age)

Subject: Mythological (Metamorphoses by Ovid)

Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Created: 1530

Period: Renaissance

Medium: Oil on wood

Dimensions: 56.7 x 38.5 cm

Location: Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

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The beauty of the female characters and the children contrasts with the hideous aspect of the male characters.

Ovid’s Metamorphoses they were an inexhaustible source of inspiration in painting and art in general at that time.

The first age is the Gold Age, a kind of earthly paradise, a kingdom of modesty and peace, in which people live in harmony with nature.

The history of civilization is deteriorates as we reach the last age, that of iron, in which immorality and wars.

The intermediate epochs are the Bronze Age and the Silver Age, the time when humanity faces its first problems.

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