Marchesa Casati

Introduction from Infinite Variety, The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati:

“She was the most scandalous woman of her day.”

The Marchesa Luisa Casati was Europe’s most notorious celebrity, and its most eccentric. For the first three decades of the twentieth century she astounded the continent. Nude servants gilded in gold leaf attended her. Bizarre wax mannequins sat as guests at her dining table. She wore live snakes as jewelry. And she was infamous for her evening strolls, naked beneath her furs, parading cheetahs on diamond-studded leashes.

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Another link: Style Icons: Marchesa Luisa Casati

An Italian Fashion Legend: The Marchesa Casati

The Marchesa Casati: Portraits of a Muse

Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa Casati (Definitive Edition)

Augustus John: The Marchesa Casati

Die göttliche Marchesa. Leben und Legende der Luisa Casati

1919 Paintings: Marchesa Casati

20th-Century Portraits: Marchesa Casati, Study for a Self-Portrait-triptych, 1985-86, 

Don Bachardy - Portraits

  In keeping with his non traditional governorship Jerry Brown chose Don Bachardy for his non traditional portrait. Although the Sacramento political types were surprised, Bachardy is probably California's greatest portrait artist.

Self Portrait by Don Bachardy.

Figure paintings at American Artist.

Stars in My Eyes

Drawings of the Male Nude

Last Drawings of Christopher IsherwoodDon Bachardy, one hundred drawings

70 x 1 - Drawings by Don Bachardy - [Introduced by the artist himself]

Don Bachardy, drawings: [exhibition] February 15-April 7, 1974