Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Manhattan Mystery
Alternate Title:
Il mistero de Manhattan
Image View:
Detail of Manhattan skyline seen through a window
Creator:
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian painter, 1888-1978)
Location:
exhibition: Museo del Novecento (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza Duomo, 8; on loan from Fondazione Giorgio e Isa Chirico, Rome
GPS:
45.463611 9.190278
Date:
1973 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
oil paint on canvas
Technique:
oil painting (technique)
Subjects:
cityscape; contemporary (1960 to present); still life; New York (N.Y.); skyscrapers
Description:
During his early 1970s stay in New York, de Chirico returns to a representation of a "metaphysical" place (referred to by critics as his neo-metaphysical phase as distinct from his early Pittura Metafisica works) where memory of antiquity, modern presences, and silent skyscrapers coexist. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHIRICO-MM-A02
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Manhattan Mystery