Maupassant, Zola, Balzac, Hugo, Flaubert: he used words as a model for picture-making.
A suit that included a knitted cap, sweater that says "Punk's Not Dead," sneakers and iPod that her 11-year-old willingly put on and modeled for pictures in.
Stephen Ongpin who asks a modest €8,000 for the portrait titled "Venus" by him, believes it was used as a model for a picture destroyed in 1816 by the dissatisfied Gérard.
Caravaggio's association with his model for these pictures, Melandroni, may have been personal as well as professional.
On the Mediterranean beaches of Cap d'Agde, British photographer David Hamilton was a familiar figure in the 1980s looking for young girls to model for his pictures.
The woman volunteers herself as a model for these pictures and is surprised at her own pleasure in the activity.
The Sun, much to the disappointment of the community, sent a Page Three model to pose for picture.
"O.K., girls!" Boos called out, lining up the models for a picture.
Art historians suggest that Steen might have used his first wife and children as models for the picture.
In the superb "Harvest Wagon" (1767), a group of young men and women -- Gainsborough's daughters modeled for the picture -- ride through a lush countryside, singing and drinking as they go.
In Three Days of the Condor, which is obviously one of the models for this picture, Robert Redford played a CIA analyst on the run in New York from ruthless killers who've murdered all of his co-workers at a small branch of the agency.
