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Building a mystery : Giorgio de Chirico and Italian renaissance painting
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Brazeau, Bryan (2019) Building a mystery : Giorgio de Chirico and Italian renaissance painting. The Italianist, 39 (1). pp. 20-43. doi:10.1080/02614340.2019.1556446 ISSN 0261-4340.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2019.1556446
Abstract
In an infamous 1926 article in La révolution Surréaliste, André Breton roundly condemned Giorgio de Chirico, faintly praising his early ‘metaphysical’ works, yet rejecting the artist’s later production. This judgment has had a marked impact on later criticism, which often separates the artist’s work into his early ‘metaphysical’ period and his production after 1919, when he proclaimed himself a pictor classicus advocating a ‘return to craft’ that focused on painting as a technical skill and the copying of Renaissance masters. Building on work of recent scholars, this essay investigates de Chirico’s relationship to Renaissance painting, arguing that his interest in early modern Italian masters predates his 1919 break with the avant-garde. Through an examination of de Chirico’s writings and early metaphysical canvases, the artist’s interest in Renaissance paintings is shown to be a constant thread throughout his early career, rather than a reactionary rejection of contemporary artistic currents.
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| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > ND Painting | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies Faculty of Arts > School for Cross-faculty Studies > Liberal Arts |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Painting, Renaissance -- Italy, De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978 | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | The Italianist | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 0261-4340 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | 3 April 2019 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 39 | ||||||||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 20-43 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/02614340.2019.1556446 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in The Italianist on 03/04/2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02614340.2019.1556446. (The Version of Record for this article also includes 10 figures that cannot be distributed open access through the institutional repository. To consult these figures, please see the published version: https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2019.1556446) | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 January 2019 | ||||||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 3 October 2020 | ||||||||||||
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