# A Masque for the Four Seasons [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRANE, Walter]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas ## Commentary The influence of the pre-Raphaelites and the Arts and Crafts movement, concerning artistic practice and political views, is clearly present throughout Walter Crane's personal life and career as an artist. A Masque for the Four Seasons illustrates the strong influence of the pre-Raphaelites even in the mature work of Crane, the strong use of colour, the heaviness and fall of the draperies and the classical yet medievalised beauty of the personifications of the seasons epitomise the core principles of the movement. ## Related artworks - [A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden: Dandelion]() - [A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden: Front page]() - [Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp]() - [Beauty and the Beast: Front page]() - [Beauty and the Beast: illustration]() - [Britomart]() - [La Primavera]() - [Neptune's Horses]() - [Renascence of Venus]() - [Shakespeare's Tempest: Title page]() - [The Advent of Spring]() - [The Baby's Opera]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()