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1934 Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, Portrait of Marchesa Luisa Casati. 

Lord Huntingdon's (Francis Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon) first marriage was to Cristina Casati, daughter of Camillo, Marquis Casati Stampa di Soncino by his wife, the artistic muse Marchesa Luisa Casati, in 1925; they had one daughter Lady Moorea Hastings.  

There is a portrait of Luisa painted by Hastings in 1934. Definitely Cristina's idea to break the ice between mother and son-in-law. I wonder what kind of relationship Luisa had with her daughter. Aside from their tempered characters and lack of love, they had nothing in common. Family patterns are made to be reproduced. Luisa revived Cristina, and Cristina Moorea, the childhood of loneliness and abandonment from which they had suffered so much. I don't like Hastings' painting. She holds a crystal ball and, behind her veil, her gaze is that of a slightly stultified witch. As long as the painter has talent, a painting does not lie. If Luisa didn't love her son-in-law, he would return it to her. » lx)

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Mysteries Of Venice - The Lady Of Burano - The Divine Marquise by Daniel Arrhakis (2023)

With the music : Dark Autumn Music - Autumn Chills / Brandon Fletcher

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The Lady Of Burano - The Divine Marquise (*)

Luisa Amman was born in Milan in 1881 into a very rich family, as her father was a cotton producer. She soon showed a strong and eccentric personality and became passionate about the lives of great people, such as the Empress of Austria Sissi.

Her androgynous appearance, her slender and thin physique, her penetrating and cheeky gaze always attracted the attention of those around her. Little more than an adult, she chose to marry the Marquis Camillo Casati Stampa di Soncino, becoming the Marquise Luisa Casati Stampa. But she discovered very soon that the role of a quiet life of wife and mother did not agree with her free and rebellious soul to the stereotypes of the time.

Only after 10 years of marriage she choose to leave Milan to move to Venice and live her eccentric and nonconformist spirit of life.

She bought the Palazzo Venier of Lions on the Grand Canal and in the villa she held sumptuous parties and dances that attracted prominent personalities from all corners of the world, and populated the garden with exotic animals, such as albino blackbirds, leopard cats, parrots, boas and a cheetah.

One of her most singular habits was to walk in St. Mark's Square in the evening, naked, covered only with a fur coat holding her cheetah on a leash, while a faithful servant would follow her with a torch so that she would be illuminated in the darkness of the night and admired by passers-by.

The frequentation of literary circles allowed her to meet Gabriele D'Annunzio with whom she lived a long history of clandestine love, as she was still married to the Marquis.

But there was another love that remained secret until today, which made her go to the island of Burano on certain nights of the new moon, hidden behind a porcelain mask and ivory silk robes. On the island they called her the "Lady In White And Copper" or the "Mysterious Lady of Burano".

The unbridled luxury of Casati did not last forever and in the last years of her life she left Venice for London, where she died in total misery in 1957, taking their best kept secret with her.

(*) History (largely based on true facts) and Image by Daniel Arrhakis.

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🔸 Described by Pablo Picasso as “dressed in a pearl-embroidered gown with a stiff elizabethan ruff and a neckline that plunged to her navel”, Marchesa Luisa Castai was an Italian heiress that is too incredible to be forgotten. Born in 1881 in Milan, Luis Casati was brought up in a highly affluent yet dysfunctional family. Her father was made a count a King Umberto I and when both her parents passed away by the time Casati was 15, making Casati and her older sister Francesca, reportedly the wealthiest women in Italy. At 19 she was married to Count Camillo Casati Stampa di Soncino, however her subsequent affair with poet Gabriella d’Annunzio caused Casati transformation into an ecentric femme fatale, the epitome of belle epoque. Photo taken c.1905 Source: ladycultblog #victorianchaps #oldphoto #retro #luisacasati #eccentric #oldphoto #goodolddays #fashion #beauty #icon #vintage #edwardian #1900s #nostalgia #pastlives https://www.instagram.com/p/CeJpkV-g4l7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Marchesa Luisa Casati (22), On a foxhunt, 1903.

The wedding between Camillo Casati Stampa di Soncino and Luisa Amman took place in June 1900, she was 19. In this way she inherited the noble title of Marchesa. They went to live at the Villa Casati Stampa, an immense house in Cinisello Balsamo (outside Milan), Lombardy, Italy.

In Milan, in 1903, the noblewoman Marchesa Luisa Casati met Gabriele D'Annunzio and the initial friendship soon turned into an affair that made scandal. Their matches were made of excesses, devotion to drug use and occultism. In the Grand Theater of his life, Gabriele, after all, was but one of many actors.