Claude Lorrain’s The Dance of the Seasons unfolds in an Arcadian vision where mythology and harmony converge. In this classically balanced landscape, the Four Seasons—personified as dancing maidens—join hands in a circle before the sun god Apollo, who presides with radiant calm. The ruins and pastoral herds in the background recall the golden ideals of antiquity, echoing the cyclical nature of time and divine order. Lorrain’s hallmark is his golden light, which bathes the scene in serenity and idealism. This painting captures the Neoclassical longing for a world where beauty, rhythm, and nature align in eternal grac