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Mackrell, Judith.
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Casati Stampa, Luisa, 1881-1957 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice.
Delevingne, Doris -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice.
Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice.
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (Venice, Italy)
Upper class women -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
Socialites -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
Courtesans -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
Palaces -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Venice (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Mackrell, Judith.
Casati Stampa, Luisa, 1881-1957 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice.
Delevingne, Doris -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice.
Guggenheim, Peggy, 1898-1979 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy -- Venice.
Palazzo Venier dei Leoni (Venice, Italy)
Upper class women -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
Socialites -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
Courtesans -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Italy -- Venice -- Biography.
Palaces -- Italy -- Venice -- History.
Venice (Italy) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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The
unfinished
palazzo
:
life
,
love
and
art
in
Venice
: the
stories
of
Luisa
Casati
,
Doris
Castlerosse
and
Peggy
Guggenheim
/ Judith Mackrell.
by
Mackrell, Judith.
Thames & Hudson Inc., 2017.
Call #:
700.411 M159u
Subjects
Casati
Stampa,
Luisa
, 1881-1957 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy --
Venice
.
Delevingne,
Doris
-- Homes and haunts -- Italy --
Venice
.
Guggenheim
,
Peggy
, 1898-1979 -- Homes and haunts -- Italy --
Venice
.
Palazzo
Venier dei Leoni (
Venice
, Italy)
Upper class women -- Italy --
Venice
-- Biography.
Socialites -- Italy --
Venice
-- Biography.
Courtesans -- Italy --
Venice
-- Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Italy --
Venice
-- Biography.
Palaces -- Italy --
Venice
-- History.
Venice
(Italy) -- Social
life
and customs -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9780500518663 (hc.)
Description:
408 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-397) and index.
Contents:
Luisa
Casati
: the living work of
art
--
Doris
Castlerosse
: the salonnière --
Peggy
Guggenheim
: the collector.
Summary:
"The story of
Venice
's "
Unfinished
Palazzo
" - told through the lives of three of its most unconventional, passionate, and fascinating residents:
Luisa
Casati
,
Doris
Castlerosse
, and
Peggy
Guggenheim
. Commissioned in 1750, the
Palazzo
Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Veniers waned mid-construction and the project was abandoned. Empty,
unfinished
, and decaying, the building was considered an eyesore until the early twentieth century when it attracted and inspired three women at key moments in their lives:
Luisa
Casati
,
Doris
Castlerosse
, and
Peggy
Guggenheim
.
Luisa
Casati
turned her home into an aesthete's fantasy where she hosted parties as extravagant and decadent as Renaissance court operas, spending small fortunes on her own costumes in her quest to become a "living work of
art
" and muse.
Doris
Castlerosse
strove to make her mark in London and
Venice
during the glamorous, hedonistic interwar years, hosting film stars and royalty at glittering parties. In the postwar years,
Peggy
Gugenheim turned the
Palazzo
into a model of modernist simplicity that served as a home for her exquisite collection of modern
art
that today draws tourists and
art
lovers from around the world. Each vivid
life
story is accompanied by materials from family archives, weaving an intricate history of these legendary
art
world eccentrics. Author Judith Mackrell is the Guardian's dance critic and the author of Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer"--Provided by publisher.
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