I want to take this opportunity to immediately say some words on an interesting work of one of these women, the Duchess Colonna (in sculpture, Marcello).
In a chapter entitled "Du grand escalier," Garnier wrote, with a mixture of caution and praise, about the only decorative work in the entire building that was not especially created for the Opera Garnier: Shortly after the opening of the celebrated Paris Opera, the architect Charles Garnier (1825–1898) published an extraordinarily detailed account of the history of the building, in which he discussed many of the artists involved in its construction and decoration. 1 Marcello (Adèle d'Affry, Duchess Castiglione-Colonna), Pythia, 1870 (installed 1875).
"A New Formula for High Art": The Genesis and Reception of Marcello's Pythiaįig.
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