The main inspiration of Luchino Visconti in creating the character played by Burt Lancaster in "Il gattopardo": il retratto di Verdi da Giovanni Boldini (1886)

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Giuseppe Verdi. Portrait by Giovanni Boldini, 1886.

This famous portrait was the main inspiration of Luchino Visconti in creating the character played by Burt Lancaster in his film Il Gattopardo.