Time - like sand. It takes beauty, youth, greatness, fame. Only artworks are able to stop a moment. Probably, such thoughts have repeatedly visited the young Louise Amman when she considered the canvas of the Great Italian Masters in Pinakotek Palazzo Brera or in the monastery of Santa Maria Delle Grazie, where Leonardo da Vinci went to admire the magnificence of the "secret evening". In general, the transformation of the shy and timid daughter of the Italian industrialist Alberto Amman to the eccentric marquis of Kazaki, one of the most afflictive women in Europe, is an exciting story. She, who in childhood did not like the guests and noisy gatherings, was shouted in adulthood the public with his eccentric outputs and frank outfits. The dress from the Heron feathers, who did not hide anything, and then at all the leopard skins, thrown right on the naked body - not every woman rushes stroll around the city in this form. Marquis not only strolled, but also received great pleasure from the hype, which caused her person. The more they write and say - the better. By the way, everyone said: as if she ordered the wax figures of their deceased lovers and kept dust inside them, painted the golden paint servants, walked on the leash of hepardians in diamond collars, kissed snakes. Much of it was true. After all, according to her contemporary Philip Julian, "in life this woman never changed legend."
Golden youth
Louise was born on January 23, 1881 in the family of a major European industrialist, the owner of the textile factories in Pordenone. The county title suggested to him by the King Umberto I. So since childhood, the baby literally "bathed in gold." She was a rather closed child, spent time for drawing, was interested in fashion. Her mother, Lucia Amman - a young woman shining in the world, was not indifferent to beautiful dresses and decorations. In the evenings, together with his daughters - the younger Louise and older French - she brought through the illustrated magazines mod. Many years later, the Marquis of Kazaky recalled how mother wished her good night, before going to the light: "My face concerned Lace, diamonds and pearls, and the nostrils had long tested her spirits." Louise became an orphan, without having reached the age of majority. At first, a mother died at the age of thirty seven years, and after two years he left his life and father.
The rich heiress of millions long remained in the girls. The beautiful eyes of Young Signorina (as well as her condition) conquered the heart of Marquis Camillo Kazaki, a representative of the oldest Milan family, but by that time impoverished. When he suggested Louise her hand and heart, he was twenty-one, and she was eighteen. Sustainlessly flowed by secular life: the young spouse spent time on the hunt, the Marquis has acquired new acquaintances in society. She did not stay away from the fashion trend of that time: hobbies of magic and occultism. At one of the balls, someone noted that Kazaki is very similar to Christina Trivulcio - the legendary person, the heroine of the Italian creative bohemian of the XIX century. According to rumors, this lady kept the hearts of his fans in gold caskets. She was considered almost a witch with the "fascinating eyes of the sphinx." According to contemporaries, Louise also possessed a similar hypnotic look. Marquise compared to Polantilo, and later she began to emphasize her similarity with Travolzio: led by coal with a huge eyes, pasted five-meantimeter eyelashes ... She even called Christina his only daughter, appeared in 1901. But the main role in the rebirth of the decent mother of the family into the shocking madness and murus belongs to Gabriel D'Annunzio ...
The Divine Comedy
The trendy poet Gabriel D'Annunzio did not have outstanding external data, but the secular ladies were hung on him clouds and read for honor to keep "genius". "This bald, unpretentious dwarf in a conversation with a woman was transformed primarily in the eyes of the interlocutor. He seemed to her almost as Apollo, because he knew how to easily and unobtrusively give each woman the feeling that she was the center of the Universe, "recalled Isadora Duncan.
For Marquis, Kazaki D'Annuncio also managed to create a special world, where she became a queen, goddess. He and her name came up with the Bark (Greek Persephone). Their love relationship soon became public domain. Karicatura walked: Marquis is aroused by joy with the poet right on the married bed. Her husband reacted calmly to gossip and peres. In the dowry for his wife, he received a fortune and did not ropat, closing his eyes on her adherents. Officially, they broke up only in 1924. Kazaki became the first Catholic in the world who received a divorce. Daughter Christina gave birth to the monastery, where it was dressed up to Thirteen years old to cape and Pantalonians so that the mother was not upset about his own age.
... "live picture" is needed by the corresponding framing. D'Annunzio suggested a friend to move to Venice, where she acquired the old dilapidated palace - Palazzo Dei Leoni. For the first time, Kazaki was published in the city in Ala, the raincoat on a naked body, accompanied by greyhi collars with the suprepied diamonds. And it was only the beginning.
Garden flooded cheetahs, snow-white peacocks, monkeys of all stripes and sizes, snakes (huge Python Anaxahor - Markism's favorite). Palazzo was arranged ballas-masquerarads, from which even visiting the venetian audience came to delight. And we need to rule the Marquis to all this - the only and unique. She even ordered his own wax doll, which was sometimes planted for a dining table. Definitely, the "insane marquise" possessed powerful energy. Among her fans were Robert de Montcape, Jean Cocketon, Arthur Rubinstein. Inspired by Tennessee Williams and Jack Keroac, Leon Bakst and Pablo Picasso. No, they would not have led to a pacifier.
The American artist Romein Brooks, who wrote Louise Kazaki, recalled that this work was barely brought it to an obsession, sucking vitality. "I'm exhausted, stuck, the hair falls out, I need rest," writing Brooks in the diary. At the same time felt, to his horror, which falls in love with the model. For the picture she was offered a lot of money, but she refused to sell it. After the death of the artist under her bed, they found a lonely canvas, rolled into the tube, - portrait of Kazaki.
Another feature of amazing marquise is its fabulous generosity. She was a famous patronage, patronized Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Alberto Martini, Giovanni Boldini, Arthur Rubinstein and many other artist leaders. It is not surprising that in the end, there is no trace of its vast state.
After the ball
In the last years of life, once one of the richest women in Europe was content with a sofa, stuffed with horse hair, an old bathroom and broken clock with a cuckoo. Her debt creditors amounted to twenty-five million dollars. On the eve of his sixtieth anniversary, Louise moved to London, where her daughter Kristina and the granddaughter of Mures lived. The girl was very good to her grandmother. She spent her on the last journey, dressed in a leopard suit and planted in the feet of the stuffed beloved Pekingese. Louise Kazaki moved to the world in another June 1, 1957 during ... a spiritual session. "Louise Kazaki is a woman of amazing beauty," wrote D'Annunzio. - When I asked, with what sense she was carrying his proud mask, she replied that she seemed to her, she was going on with the triumph leaves his image in the air, as if it was plaster or wax, and thus perpetuates himself everywhere wherever Visited. In these words, she expressed, perhaps, a scoring striving for power and to immortality, characteristic of all beauty. " He clearly caught her essence.