Picture girls. Mus and artists. From Raphael to Picas

Anna Matveeva is a prose writer, the finalist of the Big Book, National Bestseller, the author of the books “enviable sense of faith Stenina”, “Nine nineties”, “Lolotta and other Parisian stories”, “Hidden rivers” and others. In the book “Picture Girls” Anna Matveeva turns to the fate of the field workers and muses of famous artists.
Who were women who look at us from the paintings of Botticelli and Bryullov, Matisse and Dali, Rubens and Mana? They lived in different centuries, had different origin and such unlike characters, one of them did not want to yield to the great portraits in skill, and someone was just just being next to them.
"My heroines were not Always in the full sense of the word of the model, they are girls from paintings, picture girls. The fate of each of them is inextricably linked with the fate of the master, and, talking about Fornarin, one cannot help but talk about Raphael, and the story of Olga Khokhlova will not do without the mention of Picasso, Botticelli could become a completely different artist, Rembrandt without Saskia, and Modigliani - and Modigli - without Jeanne ".
Anna Matveeva