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dc.coverage.spatialSite: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, Île-de-France, France) AM 2009-198en_US
dc.coverage.temporalwinter 1917-1918 (creation)en_US
dc.creatorChirico, Giorgio deen_US
dc.date1917-1918en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-08-23T18:13:26Z
dc.date.available2016-08-23T18:13:26Z
dc.date.issued1917-1918en_US
dc.identifier267935en_US
dc.identifier.otherarchrefid: 3329en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/184249
dc.descriptionDetail, central figures, left "revenant" father figure; Il Ritornante, painted in Ferrara in 1918, counts among Giorgio De Chirico's major works. Its composition is typical of the series of 'metaphysical interiors' begun in 1916, representing figures and symbolic objects within enclosed spaces. Here there are two figures, the first, the enigmatic 'revenant' with its closed eyes and cruciform moustache and goatee, resurrects the artist's father Evariste De Chirico, who had died in 1905. This railway engineer father finds himself several times exorcised in his son's work, in the appearance of geometrical instruments and of a series of coded representations of men. In the centre of the composition, a decapitated and mutilated tailor's dummy leaning against a scaffolding of geometrical instruments represents 'the spirit of our age,' denounced by Raoul Hausmann in his Tête mécanique of 1919. Source: Centre Pompidou [website]; http://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ (accessed 7/16/2015)en_US
dc.format.mediumoil paint on canvasen_US
dc.rights© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.en_US
dc.subjectPittura Metafisicaen_US
dc.subjectArte Metafisicaen_US
dc.subjectTwentieth centuryen_US
dc.subjectMetaphysical (modern Italian fine arts style and movement)en_US
dc.titleIl Ritornanteen_US
dc.title.alternativeLe Retour de Napoléon IIIen_US
dc.title.alternativeThe Returnen_US
dc.typeimageen_US
dc.rights.accessLicensed for educational and research use by the MIT community onlyen_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode7A1-CHICA-IR-A02en_US
vra.culturalContextItalianen_US
vra.techniqueoil painting (technique)en_US
vra.worktypepainting (visual work)en_US
dc.contributor.displayGiorgio de Chirico (Italian painter, 1888-1978)en_US


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