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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Mackrell, Judith.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Mackrell, Judith.       by title:      The unfinished palaz...       by call number:      700.411 M159u     Search the Web     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.       MARC Display

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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 700.411 M159u Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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