It was a recurring theme in indelible novels like “The House of the Seven Gables,” “The Blithedale Romance” and “The Marble Faun.” Artists were central characters in several of his ...

The film, a swirling drama of love and death, is loosely adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 1860 novel The Marble Faun. Princess Maria (Elena Sangro) is married to the Duke of Helgoland (Ugo ...