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List of illustrations

  • Self-portrait with Double
  • Nietzsche
  • Nietzsche and Madness
  • The Enigma of the Horse (L’énigme du cheval)
  • Still Life with Red Egg
  • Still Life: Turin Spring (Nature Morte: Turino printanière)
  • Les Soirées de Paris, May 15, 1914, with Henri Matisse, Still Life with Lemons
  • Postcard of Pelion railroad (designed by Evaristo de Chirico), Demetriados street, Volos, Greece
  • De Chirico family tomb, Christian cemetery, Istanbul
  • Self-portrait (Portrait de l’artiste par lui-même)
  • Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Odysseus and Calypso
  • The Enigma of the Oracle (L’énigme de l’oracle)
  • The Melancholy of a Beautiful Day (La mélancolie d’une belle journée)
  • Cover of official guide to L'Esposizione di Torino 1911
  • Untimely Meditations
  • Piazza Carlo Alberto with a view of statue of King Carlo Alberto
  • Still Life: Turin Spring (Nature Morte: Turino printanière)
  • Stock certificate for one share of Thessalian railways
  • Publicity for the city of Volos
  • The Enigma of a Day (L’énigme d’une journée)
  • Cubistes, futuristes, passéistes
  • The Anguishing Morning (La matinée angoissante)
  • Autumnal Meditation (La méditation automnale)
  • The Lassitude of the Infinite (La lassitude de l’infini)
  • Miracle of the Desecrated Host, Scene 2
  • The Enigma of the Arrival and the Afternoon (L’énigme de l’arrivée et de l’après-midi)
  • The Anxious Journey (Le voyage émouvant)
  • Saint-Séverin No. 3
  • The Departure of the Poet
  • Still Life with a Plaster Cupid
  • Portrait of Jacob Meyer de Haan
  • The Enigma of a Day, detail
  • The Red Tower, detail
  • L’Antitradition Futuriste. Manifeste=synthèse
  • Guillaume Apollinaire’s apartment, 202 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris
  • André Breton in front of de Chirico’s The Enigma of a Day
  • Alberto Savinio, Paris
  • Les Soirées de Paris
  • Memories of a Voyage (Souvenirs de voyage)
  • The Anguishing Morning, detail
  • Interventionist Demonstration (Patriotic Holiday-Freeword Painting) (Manifestazione interventista [Festa patriotticadipinto parolibero])
  • The Oracle
  • Drawing related to the Joy of Return (La joie du retour)
  • Monument to Count Camillo Bensi di Cavour
  • Cavourian Enigma (Énigme Cavourienne)
  • Underpainting of The Anxious Journey
  • Study related to The Red Tower (La tour rouge)
  • Portrait d’une jeune fille américaine dans l’état de nudité (Young American Girl in a State of Nudity)
  • Elevation of water tower for Volos railway station
  • Two Children Are Threatened by a Nightingale
  • The White Horse, The Pier
  • Untitled, plate V from the portfolio Fiat modes pereat ars (Let There be Fashion, Down with Art)
  • La Domenica del Corriere, Mussolini reviews a parade of Fascist women along the Via del Impero (The Imperial Way)
  • Gare Montparnasse
  • Gare de Lyon, Paris, and Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria, Florence
  • Gare Montparnasse, façade after addition of lateral terraces
  • Gare Montparnasse, early twentieth century, with lateral terrace addition
  • Gare Montparnasse, early twentieth century, with lateral terrace addition
  • Parnassus
  • Parnassus, detail
  • Electricity Factory, XVème arrondissement, Paris
  • La gare Montparnasse la nuit
  • Flamboiement sur la gare Montparnasse
  • La Quotidienne Aventure, Paris, Eugène Figuière & Cie éditeurs, and Vitrines, Paris, Éditions de Montparnasse
  • Montparnasse
  • Place de Rennes, Paris
  • Composition No. VI, Composition 9
  • Demolished Building (Sketch 6 from Sketchbook II)
  • View from the studio of Piet Mondrian, Paris, Rue du départ
  • Still Life with Montparnasse Station
  • Centaur at the Village Blacksmith’s
  • Crash of locomotive 721 through façade of Gare Montparnasse, Paris, 26 October 1895
  • Gare Montparnasse, detail
  • Avenue de l'Opéra, Paris
  • Via Roma to the Porta Nuova station, Turin
  • Gare Montparnasse at the end of the Rue de Rennes
  • Rue de Rivoli, Paris
  • Via Po, Turin
  • The Fête Day (Le jour de fête)
  • Paris, A Rainy Day
  • Via Pietro Micca, Turin, early twentieth century
  • Artichoke seller
  • Study with statue of a politician and shadow of a smokestack
  • Gare Montparnasse, detail
  • Palace at Knossos, Crete, with staircase reconstruction
  • Villa Savoye, Poissy, France
  • Place de Rennes at Night
  • The Meal, also called Les bananes
  • Poster for Banania
  • Banana seller, Paris
  • The Philosopher’s Promenade (La promenade du philosophe)
  • Street in Paris
  • Three-Dimensional Architectonic Study for an Industrial Building (Studio plasticoarchitettonico per edificio monumentale)
  • The Tower
  • Demetriados Street, Volos, Greece, with railway built by Evaristo de Chirico
  • Via Appia Imaginaria
  • Preparatory drawing for Gare Montparnasse; catalogued as Place d’Italie avec bananes
  • The Enigma of Fatality (L’énigme de la fatalité)
  • Étude de gant
  • Study for The Enigma of Fatality
  • Repose (Ruhe) (plate VIII) from A Glove, Opus VI (Ein Handschuh, Opus VI), 1881
  • Glove seller’s shop sign
  • Rue Mauconseil, vue prise du boulevard Sébastopol, 1er arrondissement, Paris
  • Rue Mauconseil, vue prise du boulevard Sébastopol, 1er arrondissement, Paris, detail
  • The Enigma of Fatality, detail
  • Les vieilles enseignes de Paris
  • Les vieilles enseignes de Paris
  • The Serenity of the Scholar
  • Greek postage stamp with Hermes bearing his kêrykeion staff and pointing skyward
  • The Justice of Trajan, detail
  • Still Life (with Salami) (Natura morta [con salame])
  • Breakfast piece with herring, shrimps, roll, saltcellar, claret glass and halved orange
  • The Return of Ulysses (Il ritorno di Ulisse)
  • Furniture in the Valley (Mobili nella valle)
  • The Enigma of the Hour (L’énigme de l’heure)
  • Serenade (Serenata)
  • First Future
  • The Purity of a Dream (La pureté d’un rêve)
  • Metaphysical Triangle with Glove
  • La main coupée, Fantômas
  • Poster for Ranniger’s glove sellers
  • Candy wrapper, Greece, Mega Steam Powered Confectioner’s Factory
  • Pirelli Tires
  • Glass of Absinthe, Paris
  • The Surprise (La surprise)
  • The Marriage of the Virgin
  • Sewing Machine with Umbrella
  • The Song of Love (Le chant d’amour), Paris
  • Study for a Metaphysical composition in perspective with hand
  • Still Life with Chessboard
  • Factories
  • The Fatal Temple (Le temple fatal)
  • Nature morte à l’echiquier
  • Amphora
  • Fruit Dish and Carafe
  • The Language of the Child
  • Proof sheets for Nietzsche’s The Wanderer and his Shadow
  • Drawing of The Engima of Fatality, presumably as stored in the artist's studio
  • The Evil Genius of a King (Le mauvais génie du roi)
  • The Sailors’ Barracks (Le caserme dei marinai)
  • The General’s Illness (La maladie du général)
  • Statuary in Wood by African Savages: The Root of Modern Art
  • Handwritten note
  • The School of Athens, detail
  • The Piacenza Liver
  • Diagram of Etrurian script on Piacenza Bronze Liver Model
  • Liver tablet
  • Mirror depicting the mythical seer Calchas dressed as a haruspex, divining from a liver
  • Lid of Etruscan Cinerary Urn figuring the haruspex ‘Aule Lecu’ holding divinatory liver
  • Stele of Diotima, detail
  • The Reading of Auguries and Declaration of Sacred Vows, fragment of an architectural relief
  • Metaphysical Composition with Toys
  • Hymnus in Romam: anno ab Italia in libertatem vindicata quinquagesimo, Bologna, Zanichelli
  • Metaphysical Composition (Composizione metafisica)
  • Metaphysical Composition (Composizione metafisica), detail
  • The Reading of Auguries and Declaration of Sacred Vows, detail
  • Augustus as augur, Altar of the Lares, detail
  • Battle of the Centaurs (Lotta di centauri)
  • Sphinx (Sfinge)
  • The Soothsayer's Recompense
  • Heraclitus and Democritus
  • I’ll Be There. . . The Glass Dog (J’irai . . . le chien de verre)
  • The Span of Black Ladders (L’arc des échelles noires)
  • Winter
  • Illustrations for Louis Figuier’s La terre avant le deluge
  • Illustrations for Louis Figuier’s La terre avant le deluge
  • Objets dans la forêt
  • The Melancholy of Departure (Mélancolie du départ)
  • “Cartonnage au steamer,” cover for Jules Verne’s Hetzel editions
  • The Nostalgia of the Infinite (La nostalgie de l’infini)
  • Illustration for Jules Verne, Voyage au centre de la Terre
  • Portrait of Nicolaus Kratzer
  • The Child’s Brain (Le cerveau de l’enfant)
  • The Evil Genius of a King (detail)
  • The Ambassadors, detail
  • Polyhedral Sundial
  • ‘Aule Lecu’ funerary urn, detail
  • Portrait of Nicolaus Kratzer, detail
  • A modern gnomon
  • Frontispieces to Manière Universelle de Monsieur Desargues pour pratique la perspective and Allegory of Girard Desargue’s Gnomonique, La Manière universelle de M. Desargues Lyonnois pour poser l'essieu et placer les heures et autres choses aux cadrans du soleil
  • Vanitas Still life with skull, wax taper and pocket sundial
  • The Sailors’ Barracks (Le caserme dei marinai), detail
  • The Evil Genius of a King
  • Dada n. 2, frontispiece
  • The Seer (Le vaticinateur)
  • The Seer (Le vaticinateur), detail
  • The Double Dream of Spring (Le double rêve de printemps)
  • The Seer (Le vaticinateur), detail
  • The Torment of the Poet (Le tourment du poète)
  • The Endless Voyage (Le voyage sans fin)
  • The Monkey Painter
  • Saint Luke Painting the Madonna and Child in the Presence of Raphael
  • Saint Luke Painting the Virgin and Child
  • Cronache d'attualità, featuring de Chirico’s The Philosopher-Poet
  • Study related to Still Life: Turin Spring, The Destiny of the Poet, and The Fête Day
  • Study related to Still Life: Turin Spring, The Destiny of the Poet, and The Fête Day, detail
  • Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, as reproduced in Les Soirées de Paris
  • Woman in an Armchair, 1914, as reproduced in Les Soirées de Paris
  • Xoanon
  • The Seer (Le vaticinateur), detail
  • The Jewish Angel (L’ange juif)
  • The Duo (Le duo)
  • Stele of Archidike
  • The Duo (Le duo), detail
  • The Seer (Le vaticinateur), detail
  • Chalkidian blackfigure eye-cup
  • Concert program, The Most Profound Music Ever Written: Revelations on the Enigma of the Eternal Return
  • Fragment of a Corinthian column-crater depicting Jason behind a seated Phineus (both inscribed), next to Idaea and Pollux
  • The Argonauts, 1912, illustration for Charles Kingsley, The Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children
  • Apollo: Histoire générale des arts plastiques professée à l’école du Louvre
  • The Disquieting Muses (Le muse inquietanti)
  • The Philosopher’s Conquest (La conquête du philosophe)
  • Phallic monument from the sanctuary of Dionysus, Delos
  • Statue of Athena, erected in front of train station designed by Evaristo de Chirico
  • The Departure of the Argonauts (La partenza degli Argonauti)
  • Krater from Spina, detail
  • Boulevard de Strasbourg (Corsets)
  • Guillaume Apollinaire in Picasso’s studio at 11 Boulevard de Clichy
  • Paul Guillaume at his desk, 6, rue Miromesnil, Paris
  • Cubism Unveiled; Cubism as Old as the Pyramids
  • The Mask
  • Montjoie!
  • Scene for Hamlet by William Shakespeare
  • Model for final scene of Hamlet, reproduced in Towards a New Theater
  • Karagiozis, Greek shadow puppet figure
  • Javanese Marionette
  • Premonitory Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire (Portrait prémonitoire de Guillaume Apollinaire)
  • The Large Bathers, detail
  • Bathers by a River
  • Orpheus the Tired Troubadour (Orfeo trovatore stanco)
  • The Great Metaphysician (Il grande metafisico)
  • The Double Dream of Spring (Le double rêve de printemps, detail
  • The Fatal Light (La lumière fatale)
  • Prometheus (Prometeo)
  • Guillaume Apollinaire at Paul Guillaume’s gallery, Avenue de Villiers
  • Guillaume Apollinaire at Paul Guillaume’s gallery, Avenue de Villiers, detail
  • Dadaco, Berlin
  • Gare Montparnasse, detail
  • Cover of Sony Playstation game Ico
  • Cover of Imre Kertész, Fateless, featuring De Chirico's Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
  • Red Tower (Anthropomorphic Tower)
  • The Red Tower (La tour rouge)
  • Palazzo dei Congressi, Rome
  • Shout
  • Illustration
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With the deadpan of a legal deposition, Giorgio de Chirico declares himself beyond the ins and outs of avant-garde affiliation. He responds here to a casual interview conducted at the height of Mussolini’s twenty-year regime – one that by and large ignored the painter about as much as he, in turn, dodged its ideological pomp. Since abandoning his so-called Metaphysical style in...
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~This book began as a dissertation at the University of California, Berkeley, under the direction of T. J. Clark. Befitting the changes and travels undertaken since then – from Volos to the Village – these acknowledgments now resemble something of a Catalogue of Ships. Let me say straight away that my efforts most often felt anything but Homeric. It is...
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~Grasping a block of wood with one hand and pointing at it with the other, a straightfaced Giorgio de Chirico stares down the viewer. From his solid body issues a phantom doppelganger (its prodigious nose unmistakable as the painter’s own); gesturing toward a window at left, it gazes out a similar casement at right (Fig. 1). Here...
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Almost immediately after Italy entered World War One in May of 1915, Giorgio de Chirico and his brother, Alberto Savinio, departed Paris to serve in the 27th infantry regiment of the Italian army in Ferrara. Exchanging their international exploits for a national identity – a “proper passport,” as Giorgio later recalled – the brothers still advertised their...
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~Penned in the third person, Giorgio de Chirico’s autobiographical note from 1919 recalls his early paintings from Paris as having been inspired by various Italian cities:
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Describing de Chirico’s contributions to the 1914 Salon des Indépendants, Guillaume Apollinaire underscores the selective tenor of their imagery. The critic also borrows some of the painter’s pet terms: “enigma” and “fatality.” De Chirico’s submissions to this year’s Salon – The Nostalgia of...
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An orange cone pokes out of a slate-blue base, notched with indecipherable markings, huddled in the shadow of a lopsided frame; an orb of emerald green perches miraculously on an inclined plank, showing off its intersecting parabolas; a reddish polyhedron scored with strange ciphers inches upward against the same vertiginously tipped plane (Fig. 140). Bounded by a...
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~At the base of a steep platform, an oval-headed dummy rests – armless and almost faceless, but seemingly sentient – on a block of wood (Fig. 185). Wooden planks culminate in a clunky Doric propylaea, the portico of which appears as impenetrable as the mannequin’s stolid head. The figure not only inhabits...
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~The sweltering August of 1914 saw German monoplanes criss-cross the skies above Paris. Inciting the French to surrender – de Chirico recalls in his midcentury memoirs – they dropped leaflets and streamers. Bombs followed soon after. A sidewalk turned, one morning, into a...
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