Art historian Carlo Ragghianti gathered 18 copies of this work the artist created using tracing paper.  
Art historian Carlo Ragghianti gathered 18 copies of this work the artist created using tracing paper.  The head of one figure in this painting resembles the artist's earlier The Mathematicians, while its body borrows from The Return. One figure is seated on a blue box next to a pole sticking up from the ground.  The foreground contains a rectangular box divided into multi-colored triangle sections, while the background depicts the red Castello Estense and a factory with two smokestacks. The figures in this work have been described as having "heads like darning eggs" and "gowns of stone." Those figures are shown as three dressmakers' dummies, and a red mask one the ground may represent Melpomene. This canvas provided the name for a poem by Sylvia Plath, and was painted by its artist a few years after The Soothsayer's Recompense. FTP, name this metaphysical painting by Giorgio de Chirico named after a group of nine Greek goddesses who inspire art.  
Art historian Carlo Ragghianti gathered 18 copies of this work the artist created using tracing paper.  
The Disquieting Muses [or Le Muse inquietanti]