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Martha Bibescu Queen of the Belle Époque: A Previously Unknown Portrait of Domenico Rupolo

by Elena Lago
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9788833672694
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Officina Libraria
  • Publisher Imprint: Officina Libraria
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  • Pages: 64
  • Original Price: GBP 20.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 659 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Movements / Romanticism

The book presents an unpublished marble portrait by Domenico Rupolo, a sculptor and architect from Veneto, portraying Martha Bibescu, a protagonist of the Belle Epoque. Text in English and Italian.

Martha Bibescu (Bucharest, 1886 - Paris, 1973) was one of the greatest and most representative protagonists of the extraordinary world of the Belle �poque, of which Paris, which became her adopted city, was the capital. Linked to the most important political and intellectual personalities of the time, from the kings of Romania to King Alfonso XIII of Spain, from Charles de Gaulle to Winston Churchill and Marcel Proust, Martha intertwined her life with that of the sculptor and architect Domenico Rupolo (Caneva, 1861-1945), the creator of the radical modernization, lasting almost twenty-five years, of the Bibescu palace in Mogoșoaia. To crown the profound association that bound him to Martha, Rupolo executed the hitherto unpublished marble portrait of her in 1933, on which this volume focuses. This face emerging enigmatically from the marble, a paradigm of the art and culture of an entire era, is a remarkable and unexpected addition to the portraiture of one of the most popular women of the 20th century.

Text in English and Italian.

Elena Lago (1991), graduate in contemporary art history at La Sapienza in Rome, is mainly concerned with artistic expressions at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, ranging from sculpture to painting and the applied arts. Her most recent publications include: the monograph on the artist Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind, edited together with Giulia Gomiero and Sabrina Spinazzè (2021) and the catalogue Giacomo Manzù. La pietà (2022).

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