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Giorgio de Chirico House Museum

Giorgio de Chirico House Museum historical timeline

Last updated on October 4, 2026

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A painter who had moved his whole life stopped moving, and spent thirty years in one flat above a square.

Chronology

Before 1936 — de Chirico lives, in the foundation's words, a life of movement, with stays in various European cities. Structural impact: none here. What you see today: the context for what follows — this is not a family home he inherited.
1936–1938 — a significant period in New York. Structural impact: none here. What you see today: the last move before Rome.
1948 — de Chirico settles in the house at Piazza di Spagna 31, at the age of sixty. Structural impact: a three-floor apartment-studio becomes both residence and workplace. What you see today: the flat, as he arranged it.
1948–1978 — he lives and works here for the last thirty years of his life. Structural impact: three floors used as one working household, with the studio above the living rooms. What you see today: the whole of the house-museum, and the reason there is one.
Today — the apartment-studio is visitable as a Casa-museo, run by the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, by guided tour at fixed times on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and the last Sunday of the month. Structural impact: a private flat kept as it was and opened to small groups. What you see today: the rooms, on a timetable.

Verified against Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, October 2026.

Sources & verification Covers the sourced claims on this page.

Checked against Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico — The foundation records that Giorgio de Chirico settled in the house at Piazza di Spagna 31 in 1948 at the age of sixty, after a life of movement with stays in various European cities and a significant period in New York from 1936 to 1938, The foundation records that de Chirico lived and worked for the last thirty years of his life in the three-floor apartment-studio at Piazza di Spagna, today visitable as a house-museum — where the existing description called it a two-level apartment, The foundation gives the address of the Casa Museo Giorgio de Chirico as Piazza di Spagna 31, 00187 Rome, reached by Metro line A at the Piazza di Spagna stop (October 2026).