Tag: Greece

Il poeta e la sua musa (c.1925)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Il poeta e la sua musa (The Poet and His Muse) c.1925 Oil and tempera on canvas, 91.1 x 73.7 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia Though many of his paintings predate the start of Surrealism, Giorgio de…

Pietà (early 1570s)

El Greco (1541-1614) Pietà (Lamentation) Early 1570s Oil on panel, 28.9 × 20 cm Philadelphia Art Museum, Philadelphia El Greco was born in the Venetian territory of Crete and trained in Venice before moving to Rome. There he encountered the work…

Conversazione tra le rovine (1927)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Conversazione tra le rovine (Conversation among the Ruins) 1927 Oil on canvas, 130.5 x 97.2 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington A man, woman, a small table, chair, and two fragments of walls float on an octagonal, straw-colored…

Autoritratto (1912-1913)

De Chirico, Giorgio (1888-1978) Autoritratto (Self-Portrait) 1912–1913 Oil on canvas, 87.3 × 69.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York De Chirico painted this self-portrait while he lived in Paris from 1911 to 1915. He created there melancholy cityscapes that became…