Giorgio De Chirico was born in Volos (Greece) in 1888. He attended Athen’s Polithecnic and Munich’s Academy of Fine Arts. In 1912, his melancholic city squares, populated with solitary monuments and closed in porticoes without exit were shown for the first time. Towards the end of 1914 he introduced the manikin as an element of his paintings. In 1917 he met De Pisis and Carrà. Since 1919, with articles published in “Valori Plastici”, “La Ronda”, “Il Convegno” and “Il Primato artistico Italiano”, Giorgio De Chirico declared his intention of “going back to the trade”: in the meantime, his work abandoned purely metaphysical subjects only to recuperate them partially in 1925. In 1930-31 a new change in his painting took place, influenced first by Renoir, and later by Sixteenth Century art: the baroque components began to prevail from the Forties onwards, with very elaborated paintings. In the mid Sixties, along with replicas of the metaphysical period he proposed an original and ironic re-elaboration of the themes and images already present in some of his lithographic prints and theatre sketches, created around 1930. Giorgio De Chirico died in Rome in 1978.