Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Prodigal Son
Alternate Title:
Il figliol prodigo
Image View:
Overall view with frame
Creator:
Giorgio de Chirico (Italian painter, 1888-1978)
Location:
repository: Museo del Novecento (Milan, Lombardy, Italy)
Location Note:
Piazza Duomo, 8
GPS:
45.463611 9.190278
Date:
1922 (creation)
Cultural Context:
Italian
Style Period:
Metaphysical (modern Italian fine arts style and movement); Twentieth century
Work Type 1:
painting (visual work)
Classification:
Paintings
Material:
tempera paint on canvas
Technique:
painting and painting techniques
Subjects:
abstraction; allegory; Pittura Metafisica
Description:
One of de Chirico's "metaphysical" works. Pittura Metafisica’s theoretical basis was formulated through the pages of the journal Valori Plastici in a series of articles stressing the importance of time and memory as generators of the new art, which sought renewal through the use rather than the rejection of history. His work of this period also contained allusions to Roman villas and knights-errant. (Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.oxfordart online.com/)
Collection:
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier:
7A1-CHIRICO-PS-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Prodigal Son