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Italia antiqua, 2014-15

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Archive number

GPC-1460

Technique

Collage on black paper

Dimensions

50 x 70 cm

Inscriptions by the artist

Titled, signed, and dated on the verso, centre: “ “Italia antiqua” / Giulio Paolini / 2014-15”

Collection

Private collection, Turin

Sources

• Fragments and figure at the centre: Giorgio de Chirico, L’enigma di una giornata, 1914, oil on canvas, 83 x 130 cm, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo.
• Background image: Circus Flaminius E Veterum Monumentis In Lucem Eductus, engraving, 42.4 x 54 cm, in Theatrum Civitatum at Admirandorum Italiæ (Amsterdam: Ioannis Blaeu, 1663).

Exhibitions

2016	Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Expositio. Giulio Paolini per il Poldi Pezzoli, 6 May - 5 September, col. repr. p. [63].

Artist’ writings

•	G. Paolini in Giulio Paolini. Expositio, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli (Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana Editoriale, 2016), p. 60 (general commentary on the series Italia antiqua).

Bibliography

•	Giulio Paolini / Giorgio de Chirico, edited by A. Cortellessa (Turin: Nino Aragno editore, 2019), col. repr. p. 84.

Entry by Maddalena Disch, 04/08/2026