This painting, the work of the great Italian artist and main exponent of #metaphysical painting Giorgio De Chirico, entitled “The Disquieting Muses” has several curious characteristics.

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‣ The deliberately erroneous and deformed #perspective is a distinctive element of this pictorial current, in which reality appears so altered as to be lifeless. In fact, in the background, the Estense Castle of Ferrara has dark windows to indicate the absence of who should live there; while the #chimneys on the factory next door are devoid of their typical fumes as if they were not in operation

‣ This immobility is made even better through the #statues in the foreground, whose busts evoked classical Greek culture and whose heads are of mannequins. The subjects are two of the famous muses, those mythological figures turned to the protection and inspiration of the arts, but in this context they can’t play their role.

Through these expedients, #DeChirico manifests his refusal towards modernity as a rapid advancement of time because according to him novelty and progress are concepts that go beyond temporal factor

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⇒ Date: 1916, 1917, or 1918

⇒ Material: Oil on canvas

⇒ Dimensions: 97.16 cm × 66 cm (​38 1⁄4 in × 26 in)

⇒ Site: Gianni Mattioli Collection, Milan