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Born. To Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti Ugolini, niece of Pope Pius XI; a daughter, Maria Rio Pia. His Holiness sent his majordomo with blessings for his grandniece and namesake...
...hour in the attempt of the Empress Eugénie to restore the magnificence of the First Empire. Eugénie became the patron of the young Englishman. To his shop in the Rue de la Paix came not only Eugénie herself but Charlotte of Mexico, Maria Pia of Portugal, Elizabeth of Austria. Only two reverses came to Founder Worth. Victoria of England would have none of him. And Eugénie, expecting the Prince Imperial, declined to swathe herself in Persian robes, decided to set the style in maternity gowns with the crinoline. Founder Worth battled...
...doings of Jacob Epstein. Mr. Epstein, once a peddler,* now a dry-goods millionaire, will admit to a few friends that the lady cost him $250,000-about $1,250 per square inch since the portrait is only 17 in. x 11⅜ in. Her name is Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, and to set his mind at rest as to whether or not she was painted by her fellow townsman Raphael Sanzio, Mr. Epstein has letters from such authorities as Connoisseur Bernhard Berenson of Paris and Dr. George Gronau of Cassell, Germany. Mr. Epstein's agents, F. Kleinberger...
...Mussolini, director-general of everything from apple-carts to art in Italy. The citizens of Urbino lately sent a delegation to Rome and last week II Duce decided to take down, from its hooks in the Uffizi at Florence, Raphael's portrait of a relative of Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, one Francesco Maria Della Revere, Duke of Urbino and patron of its painters. After a fitting period of exhibition in the Ministry of Public Education at Rome, the duke will be restored to his duchy, courtesy of Signor Raphael Sanzio...
Wassermann has a peculiarly contemporary appeal; yet Christian Wahnsschaffe and Eva Sorel, Friedrich and Pia Laudin are universal; Christian Wahnschaffe will always be lost in the wilderness of evil, searching with blind eyes for a remote Justice. Jacob Wassermann will not die with his enemy and victim, "fin de siecle...