Italian beauty standards

Check out this list of the top 59 most beautiful women in the world who have created magic either through their work or their auras.

This experiment by journalist Esther Honig is really something interesting to watch! During the experiment, she took a simple and plain photo of herself. After that, she asked Photoshop artists from around the world to alter it, according to beauty standards in their countries. 23 artists gave her a completely different look - the results are quite astonishing and tell us a lot about beauty standards around the world! Have a look for yourself:

GIULIA TOFANA: 17th century Italian pioneering feminist and retailer of bespoke poisons. She sold her lethal invention, aqua tofana, largely to ladies who wished to be rid of their husbands. It became a family business with her daughter also involved in the trade. They were allegedly responsible for 600 deaths, mainly of married men. Despite her popularity with the general public Signora Tofana was denounced and executed by the Papal authorities in 1659.

Acquired as a portrait of Isotta da Rimini by Piero della Francesca, the painting is more probably by a Florentine artist and the sitter is unknown. The profile view emphasises the woman's high forehead, a fashionable convention achieved by shaving or plucking. 1460-70

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1400 – 1700: Italian Renaissance Ample bosom, rounded stomach, full hips, fair skin.