The term Golden Age comes from Greek mythology, particularly the Works and Days of Hesiod, and is part of the description of temporal decline of the state of peoples through five Ages, Gold being the
The Golden Age by Pietro da Cortona (Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy)
The Golden Age (c. 1530) by Lucas Cranach the Elder
Robert Willemsz de Baudous: Golden Age, etching, c. 1598.
Sculpture of Pan teaching Daphnis to play the pipes; c. 100 BCE, found in Pompeii.
The world to come, age to come, heaven on Earth, and the Kingdom of God are eschatological phrases reflecting the belief that the current world or current age is flawed or cursed and will be replaced
Resurrection of the dead, fresco from the Dura-Europos synagogue
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, an 1887 painting by Viktor Vasnetsov. The Lamb of God is visible at the top.
An image from a Falname made in India around 1610–1630, depicts Jesus fighting the Dajjal (right). Behind, the Mahdi with a veiled face.