3055225 The Age of Iron (oil on canvas) (pair to 3055256) by Fiammingo, Paolo (Franck, Pauwels) (1540-96); 128.2x195 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: The iconography derives from The Four Ages of Man, as described in Ovid\'s Metamorphoses (I:89-150), in which the earthly paradise of the Golden Age descends through the Silver Age and Bronze Age (\'when cruel people inclined to arms but not to impious crimes\') into the strife and greed of the war-like Iron Age, placed by Ovid before the Flood.); Photo 穢 Christie\'s Images.