Italian artists' models

subject of the Mona Lisa

French princess

Italian singer and composer

Italian noblewoman

Italian poet and courtesan (1546-1591)

Italian aristocrat who achieved notoriety as a mistress of Napoleon III (1837–1899)

mistress of Italian noble Ludovico Sforza

Italian operatic soprano (1874-1944)

Duchess of Urbino (1493–1550)

Italian mistress and model of Raphael

Gian Giacomo Caprotti da Oreno, better known as Salaì (1480 – 19 January 1524), was an Italian artist and pupil of Leonardo da Vinci from 1490 to 1518. Salaì entered Leonardo's household at the age of ten. Salai created paintings under the name of Andrea Salaì. He was described as one of Leonardo's students and lifelong companion and servant and was the model for Leonardo's St. John the Baptist, Bacchus, and Angelo incarnato.

Italian painter (1577-1640)

Italian model, heiress, socialite (1881–1957)

Italian art model and painter, follower of Caravaggio active in Rome (c.1589-1620)

model

Italian nun

italian model (1800-1886)

Italian painter (1867-1923)

Italian photographer and model (1871–1961)

Italian art model and painter (1861-1934)

Italian courtesan and art model

popular Italian art model

wife of Lorenzo Tornabuoni

Italian courtesan

Italian model (1889-1943)

Florentine aristocrat