Her mother, the painter Elaine Fasula, did a beautiful portrait of her, and I've placed it above the stairway to the basement.

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Gordigiani's beautiful "Portrait of the Marchesa Maria Luisa Ginora Lisci" (1884) shows the aristocratic Florentine in the couture finery and fake ringlets for which she was famous, and his smiling daughter "Giulietta as a Young Girl" (circa 1887) is a beguiling charmer.

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