Attributed to Giorgio De Chirico - Memory of myself to Prince Borghese

The self-portrait is a genre that has been widespread throughout the history of art up to the present day. The first examples date back to the Middle Ages, but not as an independent genre, but rather contextualized within a work. As the artist's self-awareness and his or her role developed, self-portraits, especially those set within other works, began to gain popularity as early as the Renaissance. The first examples of independent self-portraits, however, date back to the 16th century. Often, the artist's self-portrait serves as a sort of stylistic manifesto for the painter who conceived it.

In this work, the artist Giorgio De Chirico conveys a natural image of himself, marked by sincere realism. The exquisite craftsmanship of the work is evident not only in the technical skill with which De Chirico manages to reproduce his own features while simultaneously offering the viewer a psychological connotation. On a conceptual level, the fine hatching and intricate graphic lines are noteworthy, which, in addition to representing the play of light and shadow, imbue the figure with profound existential vibrations.

Giorgio De Chirico, born in Volos, Greece, in 1888, died in Rome in 1978. He is the founder of Metaphysical painting. De Chirico reclaims images that already exist, familiar to the collective imagination. But he creates an effect of estrangement through the process of displacement—the sudden appearance of an object outside its usual context—or condensation, the fusion of multiple objects into a single entity. Metaphysical painting is also characterized by the illusory nature of its images.

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