Here is a cleverly photoshopped image that i found on the internet. These are the faces of the 4 famous women from the last 500 years of art history. They have been painted and discussed and analyzed at length.
Starting from the left is "Girl with the Pearl Earring", next is Mona Lisa looking the other side. Beside her is Frida Kahlo and the right most is Venus.
The painting of 'Mona Lisa' is world famous. 'Mona' is short for 'Madonna' meaning 'my lady' in Italian. Leonardo da Vinci did not use strong outlines in his paintings..the colours were blended into each other in a hazy way. Interestingly, in this painting, it feels like Mona Lisa is looking right back at the viewer..from whichever angle you look! :)
Mona Lisa - by Leonardo da Vinci
I have had the good fortune to have seen this painting with my eyes. This photo has been taken from the side because of the crowd in the hall. The frame rests behind a bullet-proof glass in the Louvre museum in Paris.
'Girl in a pearl earring' is a painting by a Dutch artist Jan Vermeer. This portrait is sometimes called the Dutch Mona Lisa. The girl in this painting appears to be a commoner, yet her pearl earring is enormous and expensive. This turban that the girl is wearing is exotic for the Netherlands.With her wide eyes gazing directly at us, it seems that she is about to tell us something! :)
Girl with a pearl earring - by Johannes Vermeer
This artist, Vermeer, is famous for how he handled colour. If you google, you can see that all his works have a sense of quiet and stillness. Apparently, one of his famous colour combinations was yellow, blue and grey (you can see the combination in this painting too!). This painting kept in a museum in The Hague. Don't miss watching this video:
Frida Kahlo was a Mexican artist and activist and, so to say, the youngest of the four divas in the photoshopped image above. The more you read about her, the more happening her life seems- enough to make a movie. Frida was known to have painted portraits for many a celebrity and numerous self-portaits. This painting is actually a small self-portrait bought by the Louvre museum making Frida the first Mexican artist featured by Louvre.
'The Frame' - by Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo was always dressed in traditional Mexican clothes and was loyal to her roots. I especially like this statement from Wiki : Kahlo's artistic ambition was to paint for the Mexican people, and she stated that she wished "to be worthy, with my paintings, of the people to whom I belong and to the ideas which strengthen me"
"The birth of Venus" is the oldest of the four famous paintings shown here. This is a huge painting kept in a famous gallery in Florence and when you see it in real, you see things very differently.
'The Birth of Venus' - by Sandro Botticelli
The way i interpret this painting is this: Venus(the Goddess of Love) has just emerged from the water on a seashell and the woman attendant on the right is ready to wrap her with a cloth. The Wind Gods on the left are blowing her towards the shore of the Greek islands. Notice that all figures are floating and all the drapery and Venus's hair are fluttering. This was, supposedly, one of the very sensual paintings of the Renaissance period.
I have been blessed to have seen some classic Renaissance paintings with my own eyes. One gets to see so much more than the pictures on the internet -- the paint strokes, the real colours, the shining gold paint that would otherwise appear dull yellow in a photo.
It is admirable that someone has done a good job at bringing the four divas together in one photoshopped image - all of them seem to be having a good time together! :) They all seem happier than what they were individually! :)
Notice that they have been made of circles and triangles. These are the Sacred Geometrical Symbols. You might have seen these in everyday life..in earrings, home decor, religious architecture or healing tools and never have known. These are a part of many cultures and Feng Shui as well. 
