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Giorgio de Chirico. Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, 1914.
Giorgio de Chirico. The Soothsayer's Recompense, 1913.
Giorgio de Chirico. Piazza d'Italia, 1913.
This troubling yet fascinating work by de Chirico is an arrangement of his three most famous paintings of this period, Mystery and Melancholy of a Street, The Soothsayer's Recompense, and Piazza d'Italia. In the foreground, the twisting torso statue is reminiscent of the figure in The Soothsayer's Recompense. The courtyard and architecture featured resonates with several of his paintings, but mostly with Piazza d'Italia, illustrated by the large archway and arching trees.
De Chirico was the son of a railroad engineer. This influenced De Chirico's decision to include trains in the background of some of his paintings as seen here. There are also references made to two of his other paintings, Torino printaniere and The Awakening of Ariadne, as can be seen by the presence of the black horse statue and smoke stack.
De Chirico described the world of Metaphysical Painting: "We who know the signs of the metaphysical alphabet are aware of the joy and the solitude which are enclosed by a portico, by the corner of a street, or even in a room, on the surface of a table, or between the sides of a box... The minutely accurate and prudently weighed use of surfaces and volumes constitutes the canon of the metaphysical aesthetic."
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