Before Gaga, before Bowie—there was Marchesa Luisa Casati, the original haute-goth muse who turned herself into living art and burned through a fortune doing it.
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Oh, Marchesa, draped in strange allure
Your beauty, a paradox, bright and strange
Dance on, dance on to the edge of night
A siren's call through opium swirls #MarchesaCasati
Marchesa Luisa Casati in 1912
Augustus John, Marchesa Casati, 1919
Man Ray_Marquise Casati_1922
Giovanni Boldini, Portrait of the Marchesa Luisa Casati with a Greyhound, 1908
A thread started by @regretteruane.bsky.social, prompted me to look again at some pictures of that gloriously flamboyant redhead that was #MarchesaCasati, including the portraits Augustus John, Man Ray and Giovanni Boldini did of her.
