Virginia Sevesi as Isabella Casati, 1889, after Butti
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27 x 18"Isabella Casati bled out and died in childbirth, in 1889 at 24. Her husband commissioned Butti to memorialize her; Butti sculpted his young, combustible lover Virginia Sevesi, nude in a bed, symbolizing all women who died for having loved and having been loved. I photographed the lifesize bronze of her in her bronze bed in Milan's monumental cemetery in 2016.