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Virginia Verasis, Countess of Castiglione, the nineteenth-century aristocrat, socialite and mistress of Napoleon III, has become famous for the enigmatic and operatic photographs of herself that she choreographed and staged, now seen as masterworks of the art.
But her life story is no less extraordinary than her artistic vision, as Benedetta Craveri shows us in this groundbreaking new biography.
Drawing on archival material and the countess’s own diaries, The Contessa reveals a woman of contradictions: vain and visionary, charming and monstrous, impossible to know and impossible to ignore.
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