The Unfinished Palazzo :Life, Love and Art in Venice

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The Unfinished Palazzo

The Unfinished Palazzo :Life, Love and Art in Venice

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Abandoned unfinished and left to rot on Venice’s Grand Canal, ‘il palazzo non finito’ was once an unloved guest among the aristocrats of Venetian architecture. Yet in the 20th century it played host to three passionate and unconventional women who would take the city by storm. The staggeringly wealthy Marchesa Luisa Casati made her new home a belle epoque aesthete’s fantasy and herself a living work of art; notorious British socialite Doris Castlerosse (née Delevingne) welcomed film stars and royalty to glittering parties between the wars; and American heiress Peggy Guggenheim amassed an exquisite collection of modern art, which today draws visitors from around the world.

Each in turn used the Unfinished Palazzo as a stage on which to re-fashion her life, with a dazzling supporting cast ranging from D’Annunzio and Nijinsky, through Noël Coward, Winston Churchill and Cecil Beaton, to Yoko Ono. Individually sensational and collectively remarkable, these stories of modern Venice tell us much about the ways women chose to live in the 20th century.

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Type Book
ISBN13 9780500294437
ISBN10 0500294437
Number Of Pages 408
Item Weight 390 g
Publisher / Reseller Thames & Hudson Ltd
Format paperback
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'Rip-roaringly entertaining stories of three fascinating women' - The Times
'Well researched, gloriously gossipy, a delightful, colourful story of reinvention and rebellion' - Observer
'Very clever and entertaining … Mackrell recounts the lives of three wildly ambitious yet vulnerable women with page-turning pace and intelligence' - Spectator
'I gorged on the decadence and drama' - Helen Brown, Daily Telegraph
'Stylish, sparky and packed with spicy anecdotes' - Miranda Seymour, Literary Review
'Fascinating' - Choice
'A dazzling read' - The Lady
'Fascinating' - Lex News, France

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Author's Bio

Judith Mackrell is the Guardian’s dance critic and a successful author of biographical non-fiction titles, including Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes,which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award, and Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation, which combines the biographies of six women whose lives together encapsulated the history of the flapper era.

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