Nefertiti... is one of the few beauties of the most remote antiquity that most rightly bears that name, because unlike others of which only legends are heard, there is a portentous bust of her that is proof of the beauty of her face. And, besides, she was a pharaoh of much power.
Cleopatra... There is only one profile of her on an ancient coin, the one that shows her - for modern tastes - with a plump face and an aquiline nose. But for Julius Caesar and Mark Antony she was the most seductive woman of her time.
Helen of Troy... She has been called ''the face that threw a thousand ships into the sea,'' because her rescue by the Greeks (after she escaped with her lover Paris) was what caused the Trojan War.
Frine the courtesan... Her beauty was so beautiful that in a trial to which she was subjected in Alexandria, the judges, admired, immediately absolved her when she undressed in front of them and revealed ''her innocence''.
Simonetta Vespucci... The lover of Guiliano de Medici and cousin of Américo Vespucio was the great beauty of Renaissance Florence. Its delicate beauty can be seen today in the paintings of Botticelli ''The Spring'', ''The Birth of Venus'', in the gallery of the Uffizi, in Florence.
Madame Du Barry... King Louis XV fell madly in love with her when he first saw the face of this assistant hatter. Besides being beautiful, she was intelligent and knew how to take advantage of her precious face, because the King made her the most powerful woman in France and one of the richest. What a pity that such a beautiful head ended up under the guillotine!
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