Three Ages of Man

I just caught the phrase 'The Three Ages of Man' on a radio programme and decided to google it and this is what I found.

Three paintings

Titian, 1513 - 1514

Represents childhood, manhood synonymous with earthly love, and old age approaching death.




Giorgione - c.1510

The older man is connecting to the observer, the young man represents the dream, and the middle-aged man represents the execution.






Hans Baldung Grien 1539

From the child sleeping on the ground a line of age rises past the weeping young woman to the grim-faced old crone who seems to be exposing the young woman and is in her turn being led away by death.




An Opera by Scelsi

In the 'The Three Ages of Man', Scelsi focuses even more closely on the minutiae of sound, the inner details of a single pitch or timbre, often in a way that suspends all conventional notions of musical time.

[nb - this image is not from Scelsi but it killed me!]


A Mask. The Teotihuacán are one of Mexico’s most mysterious cultures. The mask, built of layers, seem to break open revealing a living youth within. The wrinkled visage of an aged man frames him, and the outermost mask represent the dead.



The Bible. The Bible speaks of three specific ages in man's history:

The first age is the period before the Flood, the second age includes the time after the Flood until Christ's second coming and the third age of man will begin at Christ's second coming.




Christmas
1. Believes in Father Christmas

2. Doesn't believe in Father Christmas

3. Is Father Christmas

And of course SEX
where the Three Ages of Man are simply described as:

Tri-weekly

Try weekly

Try weakly.