The Scandalous Reign of Luisa Casati: The Woman Who Became Art.
VENICE, June 2, 1957 — The most photographed woman of her age died yesterday in a single rented room in Knightsbridge, London, with a tin of boot polish beside her bed and a fortune that had evaporated into legend. Louisa Casati, the Milanese heiress who spent the largest private fortune in Italy transforming herself into … Read more