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From Elizabeth Sears' "The Ages of Man":

Yet writers and artists worked within conventions proper to their own disciplines. One will discover that _ artists made use of a relatively small repertory of forms, independently con- : ceived. They drew distinctions between the different ages of man through physical characteristics—size, posture, the length and color ofhair, the presence or absence of beard—and through costume and attribute: whip tops and other toys, bows and arrows, writing tablets, mirrors, falcons, flowering branches, scepters, swords and shields, axes, money bags, spindles and distaffs, rosaries, books, crutches, and other items were given to appropriate figures. Certain stock characters were created—the swaddled baby, the frolicsome child, the youthful falconer, the military man in his prime, the prosperous older man, and the very elderly man bent over a stick among them—and these were used time and time again, painters and sculptors combining them to form shorter and longer cycles as context demanded.