Country, Linton Park, Linton, Maidstone, UK (1981)

Artist/Designer:

Project Location: England

Style/Period(s):
No Style/Period Assigned.

Primary Material(s):
No Primary Material Assigned.

Function(s):
No Function Assigned.

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Significant Date(s):
20th Century, 1980, 1981

Additional Information:
Publications/Texts in Print:
Bachmann, Gideon. “Review: Conversation Piece by Luchino Visconti.” Film Quarterly 29, no. 2
(Winter 1975–6): 55–7.
Bacon, Henry. Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1998.
Braun, Edward. “Introduction.” In Trevor Griffiths (ed.), Collected Plays for Television, 1–33. London: Faber & Faber, 1988.
Buford, Kate. Burt Lancaster: An American Life. New York: Knopf, 2000.
Calvera, Anna. “Gruppo di famiglia in un interno (Conversation Piece), Luchino Visconti (1974).”
Design and Culture 1, no. 2 (2009): 195–7.
Canby, Vincent. “Film Festival: A ‘Conversation Piece’ by Visconti.” New York Times, September
27, 1975.
Canby, Vincent. “Film: Vulnerable Work by Visconti.” New York Times, June 24, 1977.
Cattaneo, Arturo. “Il vaso di Pandora in casa del Professore: Praz e Visconti.” In Piero Boitani and
Patrizia Rosazza-Ferraris (eds.), Scritti in onore di Mario Praz, 83–95. Rome: Gangemi
Editore, 2012.
Colaiacomo, Paola. “The Rooms of Memory: The Praz Museum in Rome.” In Harald Hendrix
(ed.), Writers’ Houses and the Making of Memory, 127–36. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Colaiacomo, Paola. “La Dolce Vita.” In Piero Boitani and Patrizia Rosazza-Ferraris (eds.), Scritti
in onore di Mario Praz, 17–29. Rome: Gangemi Editore, 2012.
Connolly, Cyril. “The House of Anti-Life.” Sunday Times, September 13, 1964.
Conti, Quirino (ed.). Conversation Piece: A Film by Luchino Visconti. Translated by Sylvia Notini.
New York: Rizzoli International, 2014.
Corbett, Patricia. “Mario Praz Museum, Rome.” Apollo 142, no. 406 (December 1995): 13–14.
D’Amico, Masolino. “Mario Praz et le cinema.” In Blaise Gautier (ed.), Mario Praz, Cahiers pour
un temps, 261–5. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1989.
D’Amico, Suso Cecchi. “Il Destino dei Complici.” In Giorgio Treves (ed.), Gruppo di famiglia in
un interno di Luchino Visconti, 17–18. Bologna: Cappelli Editore, 1975.
De Gaetano, Roberto. “Gruppo di famiglia in un interno: Le Cornici del Tempo.” In Veronica
Pravadelli (ed.), Il Cinema di Luchino Visconti, 295–306. Venice: Fondazione Scuola Nazionale
di Cinema, 2000.
De Giusti, Luciano. “Gruppo di famiglia in un interno, 1974.” In I film di Luchino Visconti, 138–44.
Rome: Gremese Editore, 1985.
Drudi, Barbara and Patrizia Rosazza-Ferraris (eds.). Visitors Book: Ospiti a Casa Praz. Rome:
Soprintendenza all Gallery Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea/Peliti Associati,
2012.
Eder, Richard. “Critic’s Notebook: Puff and Circumstance at Festival.” New York Times, October 3,
1975.
Fohr, Robert. “Scene di conversazione.” In Blaise Gautier (ed.), Mario Praz, Cahiers pour un temps,
145–51. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 1989.
Garbuglia, Mario. “Un Mestiere che Muore: Considerazioni e note sulla scenografia.” In Giorgio
Treves (ed.), Gruppo di famiglia in un interno di Luchino Visconti, 21–7. Bologna: Cappelli
Editore, 1975.
Garner Jr., Stanton B. , Trevor Griffiths: Politics, Drama, History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999), 166
González-Palacios, Alvar. “Praz v. Visconti.” Translated by Sylvia Notini. In Quirino Conti (ed.),
Conversation Piece: A Film by Luchino Visconti, 15–19. New York: Rizzoli International, 2014.
Gore, David. Soldiers, Saints and Scallywags: Stirring Tales from Family History. Newbury: David Gore, 2009.
Hendrix, Harald. “Epilogue: The Appeal of Writers’ Houses.” In Writers’ Houses and the Making of
Memory, 235–43. New York: Routledge, 2008.
Hill, John. British Cinema in the 1980s. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999
Kael, Pauline. “The Current Cinema: Lazarus Laughs.” New Yorker, September 29, 1975.
Lichtman, Sarah, and Pat Kirkham. Screen Interiors: From Country Houses to Cosmic Heterotopias. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.
Locke, Richard. “Grand Visconti.” Threepenny Review 136 (Winter 2014): 24–5.
Low, Adam (dir.). Arena: The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti. Two-part documentary.
London: BBC4, 2002, 2003. Streaming Service.
Medioli, Enrico. “Come Aschenbach, è caduto in un inganno.” In Giorgio Treves (ed.), Gruppo di
famiglia in un interno di Luchino Visconti, 11–14. Bologna: Cappelli Editore, 1975.
Poggi, Gianfranco. “Luchino Visconti and the Italian Cinema.” Film Quarterly 13, no. 3 (Spring
1960): 11–22.
Praz, Mario. “An Empire Flat in a Roman Palace.” Decoration, June 1937.
Praz, Mario. The House of Life. Translated by Angus Davidson. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1964.
Praz, Mario. Conversation Pieces: A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America.
University Park and London: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.
Praz, Mario. “Venti anni dopo.” In La casa della vita, new edition, 420–31. Milan: Adelphi, 1979.
Poole, Mike and John Wyver. Power-plays: Trevor Griffiths in Television. London: BFI, 1984Rappaport, Mark. “Luchino Visconti: Conversation Piece.” Essay/Liner Notes in Conversation Piece
[English version]. United States: Raro Video, 2012. DVD.
Sanzio, Alain and Paul-Louis Thirard. “Violence et Passion (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno)
1974.” In Luchino Visconti Cineaste, 131–8. Paris: Editions Persona, 1984.
Schifano, Laurence. Luchino Visconti: The Flames of Passion. Translated by William S. Byron.
London: William Collins Sons & Co., 1990.
Servadio, Gaia. Luchino Visconti: A Biography. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1981.
Stirling, Monica. A Screen of Time: A Study of Luchino Visconti. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovich, 1979.
Strehlke, Carl Brandon. “Mario Praz: An Interior Life.” Art & Antiques, June 1984.
Tonetti, Claretta Micheletti. “Conversation Piece: A Film about Impossibility.” In Luchino Visconti,
169–79. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1997.
Treves, Giorgio (ed.). Gruppo di famiglia in un interno di Luchino Visconti. Bologna: Cappelli
Editore, 1975.
Visconti, Luchino. Conversation Piece [English version]. Written by Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Enrico
Medioli, and Luchino Visconti. United States: Raro Video, 2011 (Original release 1975). DVD.
Visconti, Luchino. Conversation Piece [Italian version with English subtitles]. Written by Suso
Cecchi d’Amico, Enrico Medioli, and Luchino Visconti. United States: Raro Video, 2011
(Original release 1977). iTunes Streaming Service.
Weisman, Steven R. “Luchino Visconti, Film Director, 69, Dies.” New York Times, March 18, 1976.


Tags: England, United Kingdom, Kent, Film Interiors, 18th-century, Country House, BBC, 1981,


Significant Dates: Built by Robert Mann in 1730, House was enlarged to its current size in 1825, Filming began 1980


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