There is in the
Florentine Bargello a leaf of an ivory diptych which shows Adam
accompanied by the animals. He sits a little apart from them, but
smiles down at them with a dreamy expression on his face, and the
animals seem perfectly at their ease. It must date from the fourth
century, when representations of Orpheus were still common,
changeable and contradictory, made up of fear, admiration, greed,
""cruelty and love. But why did the harmony of the Golden Age never
exist?
