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 I know Audrey Hepburn's the cliche answer here, but come on. The goofy, candid nature of this picture is adorable Palpatine MD posted:That reminds me of another beauty from the arts, Edouard Manet's Olympia. Art history time, and it ties into the thread content!  Manet loving loved screwing with the Parisian art scene, and his trolling kick-started Impressionism and arguably the entire modern world of art and set the stage for parts of feminism.  This here is Luncheon on the Grass, one of the most important paintings of the century. Even in the modern day the content makes you pause for a moment - a naked woman staring at the viewer with a cocky, daring air, having a picnic with two guys in full clothing while a friend has a skimpy bath in the background. This alone made the Parisian art scene flip a poo poo, because this was a massive affront to the standard depiction of artistic nudes, which were symbols of purity, idealization, relaxation, and decidedly non-sexual beauty. This woman is flexing, tense, engaging directly with the viewer (another huge no-no at the time), intensely sexual just from her surroundings, and depicted as a normal human being instead of some Grecian ideal. In addition to that, his wife modeled for that woman. She provided the nudity, and he used the face of the same woman he'd use for Olympia. The way the painting was made was another long series of middle fingers at Parisian art. It's on a giant canvas, usually reserved for historical or mythological paintings. The brushstrokes and composition are deliberately loose and fast enough to be visible, something that would have appalled viewers, especially in a natural scene. The lighting, if you look carefully at the shadows, is totally unnatural, and combined with the loose background, indicates a studio atmosphere, which is compounded by the style of wear the men are wearing. The poses are probably the biggest slap in the face of the whole thing, as well. They're lifted straight from an engraving by Raphael, who stodgy, conservative art teachers loved and drilled into the heads of everybody they taught. There's also another Old Master painting, The Pastoral Concert, that it visually references. The whole painting, thus assembled, is a gigantic "gently caress You" to stuffy art critics making ridiculously perfect women while simultaneously slut-shaming any woman who wanted to explore the beauty of their own bodies, while declaring itself on par with Raphael and the Old Masters, a message that still rings today through modern media depictions of women. You can probably understand now why people tried to destroy it and Olympia when they were first displayed. Of course, Manet ain't got poo poo on Courbet, who had a painting named "The Origin of the World" which was just a close up on a woman's spread crotch that wasn't put on official display for 120 years. And, to tie a bit more directly back into the subject matter of the thread:  Courbet himself looked freakily like Johnny Depp.
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Idiootti posted:Richard Feynman Surely you're joking. 
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khwarezm posted:Came here to post that guy right there. Violette Szabo, French spy during WWII. 
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When you think of Leonardo da Vinci, you think of his self-portrait drawn late in life: Well, what you may not be aware of is that in his youth, his contemporaries described him as "the most beautiful man who ever lived." I hate myself for not knowing an original, verifiable source for this, but I got it from QI
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nene Letter to lady Nene from Oda Nobunaga ...It has been quite sometime since I last saw you, but your beauty grows day by day. Tokichiro (Hideyoshi) complains about you constantly and it is outrageous. While that "bald rat" (Hideyoshi) flusters to find another good woman, you remain lofty and elegant. Do not be envious. Show Hideyoshi this letter...
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 Franklin Pierce. I'm not into guys, but dude looks nicer than any other president (before the current one, haha.)  Poor Marilyn Monroe, someone put you beside Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and you just weren't as hot as her.
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Lots of material to be had at http://fuckyeahhistorycrushes.tumblr.com/ Sioux Chief Yellow Shirt, 1898
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Sheikh Zayed was the president of the United Arab Emirates for 3 decades. He died in 2004. An earlier picture:  Bad. rear end.
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Phy posted:Apparently, the underwear model/Lincoln assassination conspirator guy from pg 1 Considering he was kicked in the face by a donkey its not a big surprise. Also, if I remember my history right he was really stupid, like an almost mentally retarded level of intelligence.
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Sex Hobbit posted:Lots of material to be had at http://fuckyeahhistorycrushes.tumblr.com/ His older brother Red Shirt was supposed to be even better looking, but it's hard to find photos because he died so soon. Queen Alexandra  That's her on her right. The woman in the middle is her mother. The woman on the left is her youngest daughter.
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Nikola Tesla Father of modern electricity, originator of over 300 patents, and one handsome gent. Kind of a waste that he was celibate, cause he could have been swimming in tail if he had wanted to (All the ladies loved Tesla).
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Richard Burton The incredible Welsh actor with an incredible voice and incredible good looks.    He was also a bisexual and, you guessed it, identified himself as a Communist.
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Raskolnikov38 posted:I seem to recall some story where the two swapped royal outfits when they had a meeting together to gently caress with their staffs but I can't find a reliable source for it. Do you have any information on that? ~Babby stug bro-hug~ Also no, no idea. Sounds really plausible though. Theres a bunch of pictures of them messing around with uniforms, since they were ALL related and royalty, they had the highest grandest orders / honors and poo poo. Most of the time they visited each other, there would be parades and military show-offs, I know George wore like, formal Russian army poo poo when visiting. So it wouldn't be hard for him to just wander around all like "YEAH IM TOTALLY KING OF Y'ALL  "
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stefania_r posted:Classic historical hottie: But if we want to talk about fine-rear end WW2-era Soviets, have some Natalya Meklin.  She was a much-decorated combat pilot, part of the all-female Soviet air regiments who the Germans called "Night Witches". They were incredibly fearsome and their story is fascinating. Read more about them here. You really should, too.
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Keshik posted:When you think of Leonardo da Vinci, you think of his self-portrait drawn late in life: Here's a statue of young Leonardo for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_%28Verrocchio%29
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 Emma Hart, AKA Lady Hamilton. Nelson was also a bit of a looker, so they must have been one red hot adulterous couple
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Bilal posted:An earlier picture: No, you can't borrow my hawk. Get your own. gently caress off.
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A young Gandhi. Super-geeky, yet adorable. (I may have a thing for nerdy Indian guys, since I also think Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar had it going on.)  Astrophysicists 
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Nellie Bly The first person to travel around the world in 80 days. Also pretended to be insane in order to write about the conditions in a mental asylum. Lee Miller  Fashion model/war photographer.
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ALEX TRILLTON posted:
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Andrias Scheuchzeri posted:I admit to being a Camille Desmoulins fangirl, from the French Revolution. Not all portraits are quite as flattering as this, though: Ah, how could you bring up French Revolution hotties and not mention this lovely fellow?  Oh St. Just.  Why did you have to be so gosh-darn fanatical? Or maybe I just have a thing for rebellious French guys.  Jacques Cathelineau~
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Cruxxed Up posted:Ah, how could you bring up French Revolution hotties and not mention this lovely fellow? He has his own paper doll, complete with Farrah Fawcett hair!  There's a great/bizarre/hilarious/bullshit Robespierre biography with a St. Just chapter. "His was an unearthly beauty. His large deep-blue eyes reflected the firmament of an unknown universe.... What did that face look like asleep: were the cheeks flushed, the mouth open? Did he ever sleep? Was he alive? Was he dead?" Later it talks about how as a youth he sat in a room with skulls painted on a black cloth. Link, for some good laughs: http://archive.org/details/robespierrethein005510mbp
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 King Hussein of Jordan  Pity about his son, very unfortunate looking in comparison. Maxim Gorky  Sergei Rachmaninoff, the hottest composer
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Yvonne De Carlo (Lily Munster)  Stunning.
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Glenn Gould, a great pianist and interpreter of Bach and a stone fox in his disheveled youth.   
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utada posted:Franz Liszt You can't mention Liszt without this portrait of him as a young man:  He was the ultimate rock star of his day. It was said that women fainted when they saw him in concert. Other 19th-century musical hotties:  Tchaikovsky, with his intense eyes.  While Brahms is most famously pictured as a grizzled, white-bearded old man, he was a looker in his youth.
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bonestructure posted:Glenn Gould, a great pianist and interpreter of Bach and a stone fox in his disheveled youth. Here's Gould in motion: http://youtu.be/av2XTNgA72w Quite handsome. I may just not have good taste, but as a straight male I'm not really attracted to many of the historical women in this thread. Many of the historical gentleman, on the other hand, are very stylish.
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Daeren posted:In addition to that, his wife modeled for that woman. She provided the nudity, and he used the face of the same woman he'd use for Olympia. The model was not his wife, but Victorine Meurent, who was an artist in her own right and overall bad rear end.  CONTENT: More art history hotties: Raphael was apparently incredibly handsome and charming, enough to cause Michelangelo to hate him instantly in a jealous rage. 
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Phisty posted:The model was not his wife, but Victorine Meurent, who was an artist in her own right and overall bad rear end. Like Daeren said, Meurent was the model for the face, his wife was the model for the body. El Estrago Bonito posted:Here's a statue of young Leonardo for reference:  
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Voltaire was a loving badass and let everyone know it Look at that smug-as-hell face.
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 Konstantin Stanislavsky is pretty much the foundation for acting theory for the last century, and he did it while rocking a truly dapper moustache. Unfortunately the only widely available picture of him as a younger man is in his costume for Othello, and blackface isn't attractive.
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