Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978)
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| Giorgio de Chirico at his studio in Rome, 1974 |
Giorgio de Chirico, (born July 10, 1888, Vólos, Greece—died Nov. 19, 1978, Rome, Italy), Italian painter who, with Carlo Carrà and Giorgio Morandi, founded the style of Metaphysical painting.
![The Soothsayer’s Recompense, oil on canvas by Giorgio de Chirico, …
[Credit: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection]](http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/79/12379-003-3D5C5803.gif "The Soothsayer’s Recompense, oil on canvas by Giorgio de Chirico, …
[Credit: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection]")
After studying art in Athens and Florence, de Chirico moved to Germany in 1906 and entered the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. His early style was influenced by Arnold Böcklin’s and Max Klinger’s paintings, which juxtapose the fantastic with the commonplace. By 1910 de Chirico was living in Florence, where he began painting a unique series of landscapes that included The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon (1910) ... (From the Encyclopædia Britannica)
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| The Enigma of the Arrival and the Afternoon, 1911-12 |
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| Ariadne, 1913 |
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| The Soothsayer's Recompense, 1913 |
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| The Red Tower, 1913 |
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| The Nostalgia of the Infinite, 1913 |
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| The Nostalgia of the Poet, 1914 |
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| The Vexations of the Thinker |
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| The Melancholy of a Beautiful Day, 1913 |
