My problems with the Golden Age - part 2

I guess that, generally speaking, the Renaissance stereotype of the Golden Age was built around Hesiod's and Ovid's narratives. Still, these accounts are remarkably short and vague, and it is clear that they can be adapted or integrated at will.

For instance, Cranach's Golden Age is certainly more the reign of Aphrodite than that of Chronos (to the extent that I wonder if he read Tibullus' elegies). Cranach's primitives are the "natural" interpretation of the refined courtly characters appearing in another of his paintings, the fountain of youth (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin). And in these two pieces I see a family resemblance with the sort of themes (free relationships between sexes, Epicurean ideal, primitivist attitudes, etc.) described by Poggio Bracciolini to Niccolo' Niccoli in his famous letter from Baden (in: Two Renaissance Book Hunters: The Letters of Poggius Bracciolini to Nicolaus de Nicolis, New York, 1974; p. 24ff.).