Painted beauty

Once upon a time photographers in the world was not, so the stars and celebrity draw. We have heard only portraits - painted, sculptural portraits of beautiful women who admire and love were the most powerful rulers and the most talented artists of his time. They sometimes even more interesting to watch than modern stars, because many of today's actors and actresses seemed like shooting stars - and flashed a couple of decades gone out, and the glory of the ancient beauties takes hundreds, sometimes even thousands of years.





Nefertiti

Perfect beauty, whose face (great honor!) Graced all the churches. On it there is very little information - it is not even known if she was Egyptian or came to Egypt from Mesopotamia. She was the wife of the most powerful man in the world at that time - the emperor of Egypt, and bore him six daughters. It happened in 1334 BC - That is a little less than three and a half thousand years ago.





Giovanna degli Albizzi

The representative of an ancient Florentine family. Portrait created in 1488. She died in childbirth in 40 years.



Gioconda

Mona Lisa Gherardini, wife of the silk merchant from Florence. Portrait created in 1503-05 years. It is well known in Florence, beauty, mystery smile which is unlikely ever to be solved.



Girl with Ermine

Painted by Leonardo da Vinci. God knows who she is, but for the past 500 years is a recognized beauty.



Simonetta Vespucci

One of the most popular models of the Renaissance. There just Venus with her did not write! Beloved Prince Giuliano de 'Medici. I considered to be the belle of the Florentine Renaissance, for its beauty and was nicknamed the Beautiful Simonetta Incomparable.



Lucrezia Borgia

Illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI. Female politician, who became a femme fatale almost all the rulers of the time. For the artists of his time, he has become an icon of natural beauty and elegance.





An unidentified woman

Another beauty, captured brush Rogier van Weyden. Also it is not known who this.



Saskia

Wife of Rembrandt. She died at the age of 30 years.



La velata

Model and beloved Raphael. She went to the monastery in 1520.

Elizabeth of Austria

Queen of France, wife of King Charles IX. The first beauty of Europe, was widowed at 20, he went to the monastery.

Marie-Louise de Tassis

Model Van Dyck.

Marquise Balbi

The same model Van Dyck. He seeks out apparently beauties throughout Europe.

Brigitte Marquis Spinola Doria

A woman from the famous Genoese noble family. The daughter of the commander Giovanni Andrea Doria.

Madame Recamier

The famous beauty, the mistress of the literary and political salon, opposed themselves to Napoleon, were harassed police and returning to Paris after the restoration. He left behind a letter, which were subsequently published.

Empress Catherine II

Great woman. The period of her reign is often considered the golden age of the Russian Empire. Famous not only for new laws, but also the fact that the supporting science and art. Voltaire was surprised how much she worked.

Countess SL Stroganov

KEMakovsky fellow artists. One of the famous beauties of her time.

Elena Naryshkin

The princess, the daughter of Alexander Naryshkin, a famous admiral. There was a maid of honor of the Empress. Wife Arkady Suvorov. Zhukovsky was a friend, and she dedicated the poem by Pushkin.

Mariya Vorontsova

Nee Princess Trubetskaya. The wife of the hero Kavskazskih hikes.

Maria Lopuchin

Née Countess Tolstoy. Sister infamous adventurer Count Tolstogo- "Americans", famous for its travel and adventure that shoots with Pushkin. She died when she was not even thirty.

Maria Volkonskaia

Russian princess, writer. He converted to Catholicism. Died May 19, 1943 in Rome.

NN Pushkin

The first Russian beauty ... However, the story everyone knows :)

Madame Gudibert

Model Claude Monet. From it remained only way :)

Mary Ruthven

Van Dyck's wife, whom he married in 1639. Mary came from a very distinguished family, was maid of honor of the queen. Van Dyke died within 2 years after the wedding, and the rest of his life, Mary held a widow.

Jeanne Samary

Zhrantsuzskaya actress, one of the most popular singers of his time. My favorite model is Renoir. Fashionable lady. Beauty.

Zinaida Serebryakova

Russian artist, one of the first Russian women who managed to become an important event in the world of painting. Became not only sex-star art hangouts his age, but a very popular artist that none of the Russian women before it failed. During the revolution, he emigrated to Paris, where he lived all his life. She died when she was 81.

Susanna Lunden

The sister of the second wife of the artist Peter Paul Rubens. Fashion icon of his time, so this portrait Chato publish encyclopedias fashion.

Fanny Holman Hunt

The wife of the American artist Hunt, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. She died in childbirth, buried in the English cemetery in Florence, near the grave of Elizabeth Browning.

Jeanne Hebuterne

The famous French model of the century, artist, Modigliani unofficial wife. Remarkable women relating their lives with a great artist. He died by jumping from a window two days after the death of her beloved husband.

Lyuniya Chekovska

Familiar Modigliani, more than once helped him and Jeanne as they were without money. Just an ideal spiritual greatness.

Gala Dali

Dali often portrayed his wife, mistress and muse. Your real name of the woman - Elena Dyakonov. She was married to Paul Eluard, she was the mistress of the artist Ernst Marx, then married Dali, who was younger than her 10 years. Gala nickname - "a celebration, a holiday" - came up to Helen Paul Eluard. Gala, Dali depicted as Madonna, in fact, in the role of modern icons, it became the basis for many of Dali's paintings - such as "Madonna of Port Lligat", consecrated by Pope Pius XII.

PS True, it is a pity that no one Angelina Jolie drew?

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