Michael Orlando Yaccarino

Artists from Man Ray to Augustus John painted, sculpted, and photographed her; writers, including Jean Cocteau, Ezra Pound, and Jack Kerouac, praised her strange beauty; celebrities and royalty were awed by her lavish parties and spectacles at her homes in Italy and France. Fully authorised, completely updated, and richly illustrated, this is the fantastic story of the Marchesa Luisa Casati....