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Beyond their relationship with the fascist cultural ideas - which not all of the participating artists agreed with - the Novecento represents the Italian version of the return to order. Under the leadership of De Chirico and Carrà they recover the classic figure, during a post Metaphysical Painting period, but of which they manage to conserve its character and a number of formal features, trying to insert into the Italian tradition of the Renaissance, particularly that of Quattrocento, a style of art based on “clean forms, the right order of conception, and the exclusion of the arbitrary and of the dark”. The movement starts in Milan in 1922 and, among others, their representatives are Mario Sironi, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Massimo Campigli, Achile Funi, with the theoretical support of the critic Margherita Sarfatti. Cfr. Diccionario Larousse de la Pintura, Madrid, Ed. Planeta, 1982, t. 11, p. 778 and George Heard Hamilton, Pintura y escultura en Europa: 1880-1940, Madrid, Ed. Cátedra, 2ª. Ed. 1983, pp. 528 - 531.