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The Countess of Castiglione, Virginia Oldoini, was an Italian aristocrat and one of the most famous beauties of the 19th century, known for her elaborate self-staged photographic portraits. She was a mistress of Napoleon III and used her charm and intelligence to influence political affairs during the Second Italian War of Independence. Later in life, she became reclusive, obsessively revisiting her past through photography, creating surreal and dramatic images that foreshadowed modern concepts of self-representation and performance art.
