"A breathtaking social portrait, peeling the glitter from privileged lives even as it fleshes out the spectacle they created." ―The Washington Post Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to th...

By the 1920s, women were on the verge of something huge. Jazz, racy fashions, eyebrowraising new attitudes about art and sex—all of this pointed to a sleek, modern world, one that could shake off the grimness of the Great War and st...