Editing Luchino Visconti (section)

== Health issues and death ==
[[File:Luchino Visconti 1972.jpg|thumb|Visconti in 1972]]
Visconti smoked 120 [[cigarettes]] a day.<ref>{{cite news|last=Thomson|first=David|date=15 February 2003|title=The decadent realist|newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2003/feb/15/featuresreviews.guardianreview22|access-date=26 December 2017|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> He suffered a serious [[stroke]] in 1972, but continued to smoke heavily.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} He died in Rome of another stroke at the age of sixty-nine on 17 March 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/film-and-television-biographies/luchino-visconti|title=Luchino Visconti &#124; Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> 
The church funeral service for Visconti took place on March 19, 1976, in [[Sant'Ignazio, Rome|Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio]] in Rome. In addition to the Visconti family, the Italian President [[Giovanni Leone]] and the actors [[Burt Lancaster]],<ref name="BFI biography">{{cite web |author=The British Film Institute |author-link=British Film Institute |title=Luchino Visconti Biography |url=http://www.luchinovisconti.net/visconti_pg/biography.htm |website=luchinovisconti.net |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200216210617/http://www.luchinovisconti.net/visconti_pg/biography.htm |archive-date=2020-02-16 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Claudia Cardinale]], [[Laura Antonelli]], [[Vittorio Gassman]] and [[Helmut Berger]] were present.

There is a museum dedicated to the director's work in [[Ischia]] where he had his summer residence ''La Colombaia''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ischia.it:443/en/colombaia-by-luchino-visconti|title=Ischia.it english - Colombaia by Luchino Visconti|first=La|last=Colombaia|website=La Colombaia Museum, Museums, Forio d'Ischia, Isola d'Ischia. It is being designed the museum dedicated to the Master Visconti...}}</ref>