Its time for you to decide who is the most desirable/ sexy / hot / beautiful woman in this list.
A long time ago, before Kate Moss and Bar Rafaeli there was some beautiful women, and some artists to fix their beauty in time.
But who is the hottest woman in the history of painting?
its a Very short list and i am sure many of you will find other girls to add , but knowing women are the most common subject in arts lets just keep our mind on this ones.
I decided to just select realistic representations, like some women who would be on a magazine cover now days. ( no cubism please )
PS : NO Mona Lisa is not sexy !
EDIT 1 : give your suggestions in the comments section, i will add some new girls if they are pretty enough, and update the list to keep only the hottest.
EDIT 2 : For now the girl with the less votes is : N°17 , so she will be the next to go when i will add a new girl from your suggestions, Keep the good work.
EDIT 3 : You can see the girls that didnt had not enough vote to stay in the game, i added them in bottom page, under the poll
Vote in bottom page.
1.
Eugène Delacroix – Jeune orpheline au cimetière – 1824
2.
Leonardo Da Vinci – Portrait of a Woman – 1508
3.
Guillaume Seignac – L’innocence – 1870-1924 ( Thanks to Urusei )
4.
5.
Portrait of M. I. Lopukhina – Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky – 1797
6.
John Singer Sargent – Lady Agnew 1892 ( thanks to Krishna Rao )
7.
Alphonse Mucha – Jaroslava 1920
8.
Jan Vermeer – Girl with a Pearl Earring- 1665
9.
The Birth of Venus – Sandro BOTTICELLI – 1485
10.
J.-W.-Waterhouse-Boreas-1902
11.
Charles-Alexandre Giron – La Parisienne – 1883
12.
Diogene Ulysse Napoleon Maillart – Young Roman Water Carrier – around 1900
13.
Meditazione– di F. Hayez – 1851 (thanks to Bravo Me )
14.
Lilla Cabot Perry – chapeau-vert – 1913
15.
John Everett Millais – Ophelia
16.
Charles Amable Lenoir – La Bergere – vers 1900
17.
Auguste Toulmouche – The Hesitant Betrothed – 1866
18.
Abbot Handerson Thayer – Angel – 1889
19.
Sir Frank Bernard Dicksee – Portrait of Elsa – 1860 ( thanks to Urusei )
20.
Marianne Preindelsberger Stokes – Madonna and Child – 1907
Girls gone out of competition :
Picasso – Klimt – Ingres – Klimt.
Boldini’s reclining nudes are pretty gorgeous. Too slutty maybe, but still.
Well, she exists. The picture is different but in person the similarity is dazzling.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=4356246&id=571077683
Venus of Urbino – Titian
Judith leaving tent of Holofernes – Botticelli
Blonde bather – Renoir
Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni – Stillman
(Don’t have links – sorry)
It will be very interesting to see who wins this! Such a great idea!
“The hottest girl in the history of painting” is a brilliant topic!
I love Alphonse Mucha’s. It’s so real.
Met a girl in Trastevere from the Alto Adage that looked just like this.
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i keep going back to no.10 , so she is my favorite thus far.
Since I like my ladies all tragic and junk my vote is for Sappho by Charles-August Mengin
Rome is really worth a trip if you are in Italy. I mean the Sistine Chapel alone will make your day.
i went to Italy many times 🙂
and i loved it !
I would suggest the serie of the Sleeping beauty by Edward Burne-Jones:
Here when she is sleeping:
then when she is awake:
no Schiele? are you serious?
Serious !
realistic painting only.
From the inclusion of Botticelli it is clear that you are allowing for the inclusion of “zoom” shots. Given that, if you zoom into a close-up, I think it is hard to get “hotter” than Correggio’s Io.
Hi gave this poll a mention here + added a few of my own … http://snaporaz.posterous.com/miss-painted-lady
Venus of Urbino
this is the only woman i’d ever vote for
pedobear (ironically) votes number 18
Needs Flaming June
An intriguing portrait, where you can’t see the subject’s face:
Henri De TOULOUSE-LAUTREC – Rousse (Redhead)/La Toilette (Bathing)
http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/MASTERPIECESfromPARIS/Default.cfm?IRN=191263&BioArtistIRN=16815&mystartrow=37&realstartrow=37&MnuID=SRCH&ViewID=2
Or for a more unusual portrait:
Pierre BONNARD – Femme assoupie sur un lit (L’indolente)
http://nga.gov.au/Exhibition/MASTERPIECESfromPARIS/Default.cfm?IRN=191175&BioArtistIRN=22205&mystartrow=97&realstartrow=97&MnuID=SRCH&ViewID=2
The nude in Manet’s “Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe” is definitely the hottest woman in western art. She is calm and self-assured, looking at the viewer while between two clothed men. It looks like she left the conversation for a moment to greet the viewer, or ask who is intruding on their afternoon picnic in the woods.
I don’t know about hottest girl in the history of painting, but I think a special mention should be made of Berthe Morisot. Not only was she hot, and painted by Manet, she was herself a painter. So take that, other hot women of painting who weren’t painters!
Portrait of Morisot:
Picture of hot chicks by Morisot:
This is probably my favorite woman. I think she’s absolutely gorgeous.
La Grande Odalisque, Ingres
No women of color??!
if you have on in mind just let me know
I’ve always though Munch’s Madonna was very beautiful
There’s only one for me: Judith by Caravaggio … she’s got a tight top and is pouting while slicing a man’s head off for crikes sake – something for everyone there I rather think!…
you have a some weird fantasy … she is pretty but not looking at the reader.
The girl in Cott’s “The Storm”
I have to say that I am very disappointed by this page: Here I expected the sophisticated version of a nude calendar…
Do not get me wrong: Most of these women are aesthetically beautiful, some to a very high degree, but few come over as “hot”. (Be it through the depiction or their innate characteristics.) As a particular example, 12 is extraordinarily beautiful, but has a face so young that she could actually be 12—years old. The rest of her body is somewhat more adult, but, all in all, I feel weird making a connection between her and hotness.
I actually find quite a few ladies to be hot here, despite no nudity and innocent looks. Neither would I say that number 12. looks to be a 12 year old. Never seen adult women with similiar faces? It’s all about genes. I know this woman who’s 28 and she looks really young, still I dare to think of her as hot because I know she isn’t below 15. I’ve got this childish look myself and would hate to get such a comment. (Even though I’m not so hot LOL ;))
I admit that “12” was a slight exaggeration: I wanted to make a play on number and age. However, I still see hers as the face of an old girl—not a young woman. To put it another way: if I were contemplating her “being my girl”, I would do so in the sense of “daughter” rather than “girlfriend”.
Now, had I been 15 rather than 35…
I think Olympia by manet is not only a masterpiece but it is a real beauty…however…
i sugget
Schiele “Portrait of Edith”
Manet the girl in “Les Folies Berger”
I suggest “Olympia” bt Edouard Manet, is a classic but I think Ilympia is a real woman and, with her normal beauty, is very sexy!
I suggest adding Dinet’s “Raoucha” and Ingres’ “Odalisque”
I suggest:
“Louise-Marie de France” of Jean-Marc Nattier
I’m astonished at how many of these have similar — almost identical — lips.
I love madame Rimsky Korsakov
you can see her at Orsy Museum (Paris) or easily here:
ciao
s
I think you should add “the Two Tahitian Women” by Paul Gauguin – MET (Metropolitan Museum) New York City.
The woman on the left part of the painting is one of the most beautiful you can find in art.
Hope you’ll take it in consideration.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/49.58.1
Paul Gauguin?
I suggest to add “And The Gold Of Their Bodies”.
I suggest:
Gustav Klimt, Danae, 1907-1908
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danae_(Klimt)
Giovanni Boldini, Cléo de Merode, 1901
http://www.grandimostre.com/2009/10/boldini-nella-parigi-degli-impressionisti/
Today I suggest the hypnotic gaze of Franz Von Stuck’s “Tilla Durieux as Circe”:
Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Proserpina”
J. F. Portaels’ “An Oriental Beauty”
Joseph DeCamp’s “Sally”
“Portrait of Elsa” by Dicksee
i think Elsa will be the next one to replace the 17.
thanks !
I suggest:
“La Maya desnuda” by Francisco Goya.
Maybe she is not a classical beauty… but she is so sexy!
I suggest to add ” La signora con l’ermellino”by leonardo da Vinci
I like Mäda Primavesi!
A couple of suggestions: Madonna, Antonello da Messina
(http://www.italiadiscovery.it/dettaglio_art.php?PHPSESSID=d2166f1c32756b803a3c6ece7be23673&id=275&user_lang=4
or a beatiful zooming on
http://piralarte.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Antonello_da_Messina_037.jpg)
and Giovanni Bellini
(http://static.blogo.it/artsblog/scuderie-del-quirinale-roma-giovanni-bellini/giovanni_bellini_madonna_col_bambino_benedicente_1510.JPG).
J suggest :
Velazquez : Venus with a Mirror
J suggest Renoir : Bather with blonde hair
My boyfriend is the masculine version of #20 so I voted for her. The eyes, the lips, the chin – the resemblance is shocking.
As someone who has taken MANY art history classes, I have to say, I just LOVE this article! However, I have a few more you might think of adding:
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Olga in the Armchair, 1917
http://www.abcgallery.com/P/picasso/picasso23.html
Franz von Stuck, Salome, 1906
Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Margaret Stonborough-Wittgenstein, 1905
Thanks Jacob
Olga was in the list but she had not enough votes so i removed her.
Tamara De Lempicka: “Green Dress” http://alice.loria.fr/publications/papers/2006/EGSR_Ardeco/supplemental/images/Lempicka_green_dress.png
Leonardo, La dama dell’ermellino
judith, by cristofano allori, XVII century
(the model was the painter’s lover, called mazzafirra)
As somebody already told you, the newspaper which cited your blog is La Repubblica, Italy’s 2nd most widespread newspaper (several millions readers, if this can delight you).
And, no, I’m sorry but I didn’t know about your blog before.
It was just thanks to that newspaper.
And yes, all Italians are fond of art, of course. 😉
Leonardo: “La belle ferroniere”
http://arthistory.about.com/od/leonardo/ig/leonardo_paintings/ldvpg_11.htm
I suggest:
Leonardo, La dama dell’ermellino
11!
For me the most beautiful one has always been Jane Burden Morris portrayed so many times by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Here my advise: Ecce Ancilla Domini by Dante Gagriel Rossetti.
In my humble opinion the hottest woman in art’s history is Goya’s Isabel de Porcel. At first sight she might look like a nice and even boring girl but I’m pretty sure there’s much more behind those quite eyes…
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/goya/goya_porcel.jpg.html
How about Lady Agnew by John Singer Sargent? She always did it for me.
I suggest:
GIOVANNI BOLDINI – Reclining nude
or
GIOVANNI BOLDINI – Nude
or
GIOVANNI BOLDINI – Marthe
etc… etc…
I think that Boldini’s women are the hottest in the history of the painting.
I forget the link for Lady Agnew
Thanks a lot, i added it
so, your post is also here:
http://espresso.repubblica.it/multimedia/23797426
I’ like to suggest Luca Signorelli’s “Crucifixion with Mary Magdalen”, Gallleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
The most beautiful Magdalene I’ve ever seen…the depth and the intensity of her gaze are unique
P.S. Unfortunately, it needs many zooms…!!
We suggest:
Tranquillo Cremona “Edera” (1878)
and
Amedeo Modigliani “Lunia Czechovska”
I found other expressions of artistic beauty in L. F. Comerre’s models:
“La belle Liseuse”
“An arab beauty”
And J. K. Stieler’s ladies:
Also Greuze’s “Young woman in a white hat” deserves:
Emile Vernone’s
Millais’s
I find to be a splendid woman M.me Barbe Rimsky-Korsakov – “the Tartar Venus” – portrayed by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Musée d’Orsay, Paris). The quintessence of Romanticism, if you feel so…
Ohhh! We forgot the magic and mythological beauty painted by Guillaume Seignac:
“La nymphe de Foret”
“Cupid and Psyche”
“L’innocence”
“Les avances de l’amour”
“Jeune Femme denudee”
“Psyche”
i take the Innocence.
and remove Ingres
good job !
And what about Judith by Gustav Klimt?
i was thinking at Judith too but she is not really realistic for a magazine cover … and what an haircut …
U forgot SCHIELE and one of his women
not realistic enough.
Hi,
between the images of women exposed to you my favorite is J.-W.-Waterhouse-Boreas-1902.
I would suggest two other women:
“Woman at the window ( Muchaca en la ventana)of Salvador Dali”: I think this woman has the sensuality typical of Mediterranean women, and also a sense of mystery because we do not see her face but turned around to look at the sea and even a sense of sad and gentle man beloved of wait…
“Judith I G. klimt ” femme fatal the forces of sexuality, regeneration, love, and death form the dominant themes of Klimt’s work.
Woman at the window is nice but … i don’t see her face .. haha
i was thinking at Judith too but she is not really realistic for a magazine cover … and what an haircut …
Giovanni Boldini, “Cléo de Mérode”. Absolutely sexy!!!
http://foto.ilsole24ore.com/SoleOnLine4/Tempo%20libero%20e%20Cultura/2009/boldini-mostra-ferrara/boldini-mostra-ferrara.php?id=2
I like Sibilla Delfica frescoed by Michelanngelo on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Vatican . she is so sweet and perfect
I forgot to paste the webpage where to find the portrait of the “girl with teardrop” by Jerichau-Baumann:
http://images.google.it/imgres?imgurl=http://www.painting-palace.com/files/177/17654_A_Young_Girl_t.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.painting-palace.com/en/artists/874-anna-maria-elisabeth-jerichau-baumann&usg=__N-ZKmwwAv9yb39bnxA-R7yf4Y7w=&h=159&w=140&sz=6&hl=it&start=31&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=finM-6KSK9E6kM:&tbnh=97&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3DElisabeth%2BJerichau-Baumann%26start%3D18%26um%3D1%26hl%3Dit%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26hs%3Dyy8%26sa%3DN%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:it:official%26ndsp%3D18%26tbs%3Disch:1
And I’m still looking for something interesting…
Nice painting, but nit very realistic, she looks more like a Manga than a real woman, with this huge eyes … but keep looking u have very good tastes.
In the Sistine Chapel there is the Sibilla Delfica frescoed by Michelangelo : she is so sweet and perfect
Take a look at “L’annunziata” by Antonello da Messina
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annunciata_di_Palermo
Master piece for sure, but i would not ask her out for a date.. 🙂
I was quite impressed by the face of this young lady portrayed by the danish painter Anna Maria Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann under the name of “Girl with teardrop”.
By the same painter I think it deserves to be taken into consideration also “An Egyptian pottery seller near Gizeh”
And what about the beautiful “Wounded puppy” by Vittorio Matteo Corcos? Have a look here:
Hope the above was helpful! ; )
I appreciated that somebody suggested my favourite one:
– Bellini: Madonna con bambino
(http://images.easyart.com/i/prints/rw/lg/3/3/Giovanni-Bellini-Madonna-col-Bambino-33273.jpg)
But he painted so many other beautiful Madonnas…
And don’t miss these other world-famous masterpieces:
– Antonello da Messina: Annunciata
(http://www.italiadiscovery.it/immagini/articoli/275.jpg)
– Beato Angelico: Annunciazione
(http://tearph.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/annun.jpg)
P.S. You may be wondering about why so many comments from Italy today… it’s not only because we love art… it’s that your blog appeared in the website of one of Italy’s most important newspapers.
i was aware of that … but i love Italy too so every thing is great.
what is the Newspaper name again ?
did u read about my blog elsewhere ?
No Naked Maja? Nuts.
What about “Venus at her Mirror” by Velazquez? (National Gallery, London)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokeby_Venus
lovely art but this selection is about face … not ass … 🙂
but thanks anyway.
May I suggest:
Eugene De Blaas: In The Water:
but also Flora of Tiziano is very very nice
and the ladies of Tamara de limpicka? the green one with gloves in so light and intense at the same time!!!
Well done! By the way I’d suggest to add the “Antea” by Francesco Mazzola called “il Parmigianino”, sited in Naples at the Capodimonte Museum. Tks
I suggest Galatea (leaving out Pygmalion) by Girodet
We suggest:
“A study of Campaspe” by John William Godward (1985)
“Portrait of a Young Girl” by Petrus Christus
A study of Campaspe for sure. love that
Definitely 13! 🙂 She’s so mysterious…
I suggest “Venus of Urbino”, Tiziano
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres – Portrait of Mademoiselle Riviere (1805)
My vote is for her!
I like very much ” Woman by the window”( 1928) , by Kusma Petrov-Vodkin.
http://www.abcgallery.com/P/petrov-vodkin/petrov-vodkin37.html
Why are “La fornarina” (by Raffaello Sanzio), the “Portrait of Ginevra Benci” (by Leonardo da Vinci) and the “Venus at the mirror” (by Velasquez) missing?
1) Madonna and child (“Greek Madonna”), Giovanni Bellini, Brera, Milan
2) La belle Ferronière, Leonardo, Louvre
3) Doña Isabel Cobos del Porcel, Goya, National Gallery, London
4) S. Catherine, Lotto, Nat. Gallery of Art, Washington
Klimt, danae….
totally the hottest chick in the history of painting…
I suggest to add “Madonna” di Edvard Munch
I totally agree with you!!!
agreed
I suggest to add the Venus of the painting “Venus and Mars” by Botticelli (London, National Gallery)
and Venus Verticordia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti?
I suggest to add:
– Venus of Urbino by Tiziano Vecellio,
– the birth of Venus by William-Adolphe Bouguereau
– the birth of Venus by Alexandre Cabanel
– Albayde by Alexandre Cabanel
definitly, the “madonna con bambino e angeli” can’t be missing. Not only the model was his lover, she was also a nun and the little jesus was their actual son
I would add Raffaello’s Madonna della Seggiola or Ritratto di donna velata.
What about her?
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I suggest to add “circe” by franz von stuck http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Franz_von_Stuck_Tilla_Durieux_als_Circe.jpg
One of my favourite : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Vanity.jpg
“Vanité”, Alfred Agache (1885)
love that
What about Venus of Tiziano and Venus of Giorgione?
Albert Edelfelt, “Virginie” 1883
She’s so beautiful!!! I agree!
so cute!
I suggest to add “Antea”, Parmigianino, Museo di Capodimonte – Napoli.
What about “La meditazione”, Francesco Hayez, 1851, Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna, Verona
wow i love it !
Obviously this is a very closed selection. I have choosen Botticelli: his Venus is so unrealistic, out of the time, out of a contest, always beatiful and divine…
No Boldini?
Giovanni Boldini, “Cléo de Mérode”. Absolutely sexy!!!
there is also wonderful women of Schiele’s paintings
Schiele Women are beautiful but not really realistic + most of them are drawing not painting.
but i agree with you
I suggest to add “la maddalena”, Tiziano, Palazzo Pitti.
And “Madonna col bambino e Angeli” Filippo Lippi, Uffizi.
(the model was his lover!)
Vittorio Corcos- Sogni- Dalleria d’Arte Moderna- Roma
Sargent’s Madame X is the winner.
I agree!
personaly i prefer this one
Yes, how could they forget Sargent’s Madame X?
Forgive me my grammar and general mistakes.
Not only is Vermeer’s piece is technically brilliant and I think the best among these, but the girl herself…he brings out a beauty that is not just in the dazzling recreation of person, as with Lippi or Maillart. He must have had such and eye for emotions, and the tells one might find in body language/facial expression. This Girl with a Pearl Earring is beautiful because Vermeer, I believe more firmly every time I take in one of his paintings, had a hand and an eye that were the same organ for some moments. This painting, Mistress and Maid, A Maid Asleep, The Little Street…I could go on. He’s brilliant and he happened upon a brilliantly beautiful women…and WE’RE REAPING THE BENEFITS!
wth no Mucha, no Klimt, no Goya?!?!?! Bah!
there is 2 Klimt and 1 Mucha, i think u need some glasses…
No Olympia? 😦
Olympia by Edouard Manet is a Master piece, but frankly the model was not very pretty, actualy it was part of the concept, unlike other artists, Manet did not depict a goddess or an odalisque but a high-class prostitute waiting for a client.
no modiglianis ? very sad….
I decided to just select realistic representations, like some women who would be on a magazine cover now days