Camondo Legacy
Del Moral, JM,De Gary, MN
The Camondos were a family of bankers and philanthropists – ‘the Rothschilds of the East’. Arriving in Paris from Istanbul in 1869, their presence was soon noted in the worlds of business, music, art and the wealthier echelons of Paris society. One man, Moïse de Camondo, made their mark permanent with the legacy of the Musée Nissim de Camondo, a magnificent Belle Époque mansion built to contain the family’s collection of 18th-century French art, and which became a memorial to his son who did not live to inherit it: Nissim de Camondo, a pilot during the First World War, was killed in aerial combat in 1917. With Moïse’s death in 1935, and the deaths of remaining members of the family at Auschwitz in 1943–44,...
ISBN: 978-0-500-51410-8
Издательство:
Thames & Hudson
Дата выхода: июль 2011