Ringling
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...
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...
