three duets with Muratore. Her portrait was painted by the Italian artist Giovanni Boldini (acquired by Maurice de Rothschild) and by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury. The latter painting is now the property of the Metropolitan Opera, the gift of Nicholas Meredith Turner in memory of his wife, the soprano Jessica Dragonette. Hers is the inspiring beauty that appears in several works by Piero Fornasetti. In 1955, Gina Lollobrigida portrayed Cavalieri in a movie of Cavalieri's life, Beautiful But Dangerous (also known as The World's Most Beautiful Woman). In 2004, a book was published, written by Paul Fryer and Olga Usova, titled Lina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera’s Greatest Beauty, 1874–1944. Family From her relationship to Alexandre Bariatinsky, Lina had one son, Alexandre Bariatinsky, Jr. He was serving in the Italian Army early in WW1 when she went to the authorities trying to find him. Films Manon Lescaut (1914) Sposa nella morte (1915) The Shadow of Her Past (1915) The Rose of Granada (1916) The Eternal Temptress (1917) Love's Conquest (1918) A Woman of Impulse (1918) The Two Brides (1919) The Crushed Idol (1920) Mad Love (1920) Iconography Antonio de La Gandara – Portrait of Lina Cavalieri Piero Fornasetti – 'Tema e Variazioni' series Bibliography Lina Cavalieri, Le mie verità, redatte da Paolo D'Arvanni, Roma, Soc. An. Poligr. Italiana, 1936; Vincenzo De Angelis, Lina Cavalieri e Gabriele D'Annunzio, Roma, Fratelli Palombi, 1955; Vittorio Martinelli, L'avventura cinematografica di Lina Cavalieri, S.l., s.n., 1986; Franco Di Tizio, Lina Cavalieri, la donna più bella del mondo. La vita 1875-1944, prefazione di Dacia Maraini, Chieti, Ianieri, 2004. Lucia Fusco, Storie di donne che hanno fatto la storia: Lina Cavalieri, Nuova Informazione, Lt, A. XXIII, n. 12, pp. 302–303, Dicembre 2017. Franco Di Tizio, Lina Cavalieri "Massima testimonianza di Venere in Terra", Pescara, Ianieri, 2019. Fryer, Paul, and Olga Usova. Lina Cavalieri: The Life of Opera's Greatest Beauty, 1874-1944. McFarland, 2003. References External links La Gandara (audio only, 1910). Lina Cavalieri: Broadway Photographs(Univ. of South Carolina) 1874 births 1944 deaths People from Rieti Italian operatic sopranos Italian film actresses Italian silent film actresses Deaths by airstrike during World War II Italian civilians killed in World War II 20th-century Italian actresses Deaths by American airstrikes 20th-century Italian women opera singers Monologists Italian artists' models Chanler family People of Marchesan descent