A Dreamscape of the Mind: The Life and Art of Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico, born July 10, 1888, in Volos, Greece, to Italian parents—a Genoese mother and a Sicilian father—was an artist whose vision profoundly shaped the landscape of modern art. His formative years were spent absorbing classical influences alongside burgeoning anxieties about the human condition, setting him on a path toward creating what would become known a…