Giorgio de Chirico

Giorgio de Chirico's metaphysical paintings of the 1910s, empty arcaded squares, long shadows and mannequins, inspired the Surrealists. He then turned to an old-master style in tempera and to baroque self-portraits in costume, which the Surrealists denounced. Late in life he painted new versions of his early metaphysical pictures, sometimes backdated, which makes his career a puzzle about originality and copying.