附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover -- Frontispiece -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Chronology -- 1. A Prologue: Ringling, the Showman -- 2. Sarasota's Golden Promise -- 3. A Decade of Quiet Affluence -- 4. The Florida Gold Rush -- 5. Life in the Grand Manner -- 6. After the Boom -- 7. The Art Collector -- 8. A Long Farewell -- 9. Ten Years in Probate -- 10. John Ringling Redux -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
摘要:John Nicholas Ringling's years in Sarasota spanned the final quarter-century of his life. On Florida's west coast, as the Ringling's Circus became ""the greatest show on earth, "" he collected Baroque paintings, European decorative art, and Italian statuary, built the ostentatious mansion Ca'd'Zan, developed and marketed most of the barrier islands around Sarasota Bay, and became the focus of a confusing pastiche of acclaim, misconception, and suspicion. Sarasota's Ringling Museum is his priceless cultural legacy to the people of Florida and the world of art--an inheritance at risk for the t
