Isabella Albrizzi-Teotochi
Isabella Countess Albrizzi-Teotochi (painting by Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun )
Isabella Countess Albrizzi-Teotochi (born November 28, 1763 in Corfu , † September 27, 1836 in Venice ) was a Venetian salonnière and writer.
Life
Elisabetta Teotochi came from the noble family Theotokis from Corfu. She came to Venice in 1779 as the wife of the Venetian patrician Carlo Antonio Marin . After the death of her husband in 1815, she married the inquisitor Count Giuseppe Albrizzi.
In her house were among other Ippolito Pindemonte , Antonio Canova , Ugo Foscolo , Angelo Quirini , Vivant Denon , George Gordon Byron , Melchiorre Cesarotti , Vittorio Alfieri , Lazzaro Spallanzani , Germaine de Staël and Alexander von Humboldt guest. In her work “Ritratti” (1807) she draws character images of numerous of these personalities.
Works
- Descrizione delle opere di scoltura e plastica di Antonio Canova
- Vita di Vittoria Colonna
- Difesa della Mirra d'Alfieri
- Ritratti (Brescia 1807)
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Albrizzi-Teotochi, Isabella . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 12 ( digitized version ).
Web links
Commons : Isabella Teotochi Albrizzi - Collection of images, videos and audio files
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Albrizzi-Teotochi, Isabella |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Teotochi-Marin, Isabella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Venetian salonnière and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 28, 1763 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Corfu |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1836 |
| Place of death | Venice |