ID: 700000377 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000377	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Ariadne (painting (visual work); Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888-1978); 1913; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1996.403.10)

Note: A statue of a slumbering Ariadne is in the foreground of this image of a desolate public square, rendered in de Chirico’s distinctive simple and broad forms. According to the Greek myth, Theseus abandoned his lover Ariadne on the island of Naxos while she slept. Ariadne acquired great personal symbolic meaning for de Chirico after he moved to Paris in 1911 and entered a period of isolation and loneliness. A dreamy escape into the classical past, the painting also serves as a retreat into de Chirico’s memories of his childhood in Greece.

Titles:

Ariadne (preferred,C,U,D,RP,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1913

Creator Display:

Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, 1888-1978) [preferred,VP]

painter De Chirico, Giorgio (Italian painter, writer, and scenographer, 1888-1978) [500032635]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1996.403.10

Credit Line: Bequest of Florene M. Schoenborn, 1995

Display Materials: oil and graphite on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: 135.6 x 180.3 cm (53 3/8 x 71 in.)

Cultures:

Italian (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Surrealist [300021512] (preferred,N/A)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>, <modern European fine arts styles and movements>)

General Subject:

allegory (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Ariadne [901000155]
	.....((Greek characters, Greek iconography, Legend, Religion, Mythology)) (ICON)

	sculpture (visual works) [300047090]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>) (AAT)

	architecture (object genre) [300263552]
	.....(Objects Facet, Object Genres (hierarchy name), object genres (object classifications)) (AAT)

	public squares [300008304]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Open Spaces and Site Elements (hierarchy name ), open spaces, <open spaces by form>) (AAT)

	arches [300000994]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, architectural elements, <structural elements and components for structural elements>, structural elements, <spanning and projecting structural elements>, <arches and arch components>) (AAT)

Copyright: © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Provenance: The artist, Paris; Jean Paulhan, Paris (1924/25–1959/60); [Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva, 1959/60]; [possibly Pierre Matisse, New York]; Mr. and Mrs. Samuel A. Marx, Chicago (1959/60–his d. 1964); Mrs. Florene Marx, later Mrs. Wolfgang Schoenborn, New York (1964–d. 1995; her bequest to MMA)

Inscriptions: Signature: [lower right]: Giorgio de Chirico /M.CM.XIII.

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Ariadne	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 21 May 2012

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)