Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor (born 1888)

Giorgio de Chirico

Greek-Italian artist (1888–1978)

Giuseppe Maria Alberto Giorgio de Chirico was an Italian artist and writer born in Greece. In the years before World War I, he founded the scuola metafisica art movement, which profoundly influenced the surrealists. His best-known works often feature Roman arcades, long shadows,…