In the article the pictures of the Italian humanist F. Petrarka and sculptor and artist of Renaissance age Mikelandzhelo are analysed of old age. It becomes firmly established that in this epoch there is new appearance of old age, which did not find the continuation in subsequent epochs. At the same time the Italian thinkers pulled out in relation to age of old age a number of ideas which appear actual and in our epoch. Among them is an idea of productive and creative life of man to extreme old age.