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1. Leonardo Da Vinci's portrait of "Mona Lisa" - probably the most famous painting in the world - is known in Italy by a different name, which refers to the sitter's family name.
2. The beautiful, red-haired Elizabeth Siddal posed for many artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood before her untimely death at the age of 33. Who was her husband, who was also one of the movement's founders?
3. Russian-born Gala Diakonova was still married to her first husband when she met this icon of Surrealism (famous for painting melting clocks) and became his muse and favourite model.
4. Simonetta Vespucci was acclaimed as the most beautiful woman in Renaissance Florence. One of her most fervent admirers was this celebrated painter, who was said to have depicted her as Venus rising from the sea.
5. Louise Weber, known by the stage name of La Goulue (The Glutton), was a French dancer who became one of the favourite subjects of Impressionist painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. What dance was she famous for?
6. Filippo Lippi's lovely "Madonna with Child and Two Angels", which can be admired at the Florence's Galleria degli Uffizi, is said to portray the likeness of Lucrezia Buti, the beautiful young woman with whom the artist had a passionate affair. What was unusual about this love story?
7. One of the most iconic statues in early 19th-century art is Antonio Canova's "Venus Victrix" (Venus Victorious), which depicts the beautiful, half-naked Pauline Borghese reclining on a couch. Who was Pauline's famous older brother?
8. A famous society beauty in turn-of-the-19th-century Paris, Virginie Gautreau was the wife of a French banker, who had her portrait painted by renowned American artist John Singer Sargent. What is the portrait known as?
9. Pepita Tudó, the mistress of Spanish Prime Minister Manuel de Godoy, was likely the model for "La Maja Desnuda" (The Naked Maja), one of the best-known works by this major Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
10. A moderately successful artist in her own right, Victorine Meurent was also the favourite model of this influential French artist, in whose best-known paintings, "Olympia" and "The Luncheon on the Grass", she appeared in the nude.
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