Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/george-frederic-watts-586" aria-label="More by George Frederic Watts" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">George Frederic Watts</a>
Golden Age
Presented by Miss Lucy Jarvis 1930
adults
animals: mammals
classical myths: gods and heroes
emotions, concepts and ideas
goat
idyll
landscape
people
putto
religion and belief
universal concepts
woman
wooded
<p>Both this picture and the one below constitute general evocations of the classical world. 'The Golden Age' is a term used to describe the happiest, most innocent epoch in the history of this world - held by some to have ended when Pandora opened her box. An imminent end to innocence is here signalled in the woman's tempting one of the children with an apple.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
25 April 2014 – 19 October 2014
2014-10-19
25 April 2014 – 19 October 2014
2014-10-19
2014-04-25
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2014-04-25
Bodies of Nature
Collection based display
The Golden Age
support: 298 × 349 mm
frame: 416 × 466 × 68 mm
Presented by Miss Lucy Jarvis 1930
<p>Both this picture and the one below constitute general evocations of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/classicism" title="Glossary definition for 'Classicism'"><span>classical</span></a> world. 'The Golden Age' is a term used to describe the happiest, most innocent epoch in the history of this world - held by some to have ended when Pandora opened her box. An imminent end to innocence is here signalled in the woman's tempting one of the children with an apple.</p>
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adults animals: mammals classical myths: gods and heroes emotions, concepts and ideas goat idyll landscape people putto religion and belief universal concepts woman wooded