Ages of man: fifth stage, from the age of sixty four to eighty and the classical orders of architecture: tuscan. Engraving by J. Wierix, 1577, after J. Vredeman de Vries.

This print, one of a series of seven, was published as the "Theatrum vitae humanae" and displayed six stages of the life of man, in connection with the five architectural orders (the sixth being destruction, showing ruins and skeletons representing death). The frailty of old age is represented by physical decay against a winter landscape, hunch-backed melancholic old men, sit trying to regain lost stamina, one with a fools cap has a young woman sitting on his lap and misunderstands wisdom, personified and pointing upwards. Crosses signify their final welcoming home- the tomb