Divine Marchesa at Palazzo Fortuny

Until the 8th of the March one of the most eccentric women of the Italian '900 will be back on the centre of the attention of the Venetian artistic annuals: she's Luisa Casati Stampa, protagonist of the "Belle époque" and inspiring muse not only of D'Annunzio but also of many other great artist of that age, like Boldini, Bakst, Marinetti, Balla, Man Ray.

Divina Marchesa - Luisa Casati's art and being from the Bellé époque to the Roaring Twenties- at Palazzo Fortuny is the first exhibition totally dedicated at the woman who, at the early twentieth century, with exaggerated make up, unconventional and eccentric performance and a life over the line, could transform herself in an art work a living legend.

The excessive behaviours of Divina Marchesa like the walks with pythons on her neck and her nude look was not only self-worship: today we can understand the more consciously artistic part: a forerunner of performative and body art and, and a straordinary collector. 

The exhibition deepens this part and it runs through again those years by over an hundred of paintings, sculptures, jewelries, dresses, pictures of the great artist of that age  all gathered in Mariano Fortuny's home-atelier which, with its delicate silks, dressed Luisa Casati's dreams and madness.

Palazzo Fortuny
until sunday 8th march
every day 10-18 (closed on thursday)
full ticket 12€
info on fortuny.visitmuve.it