Well, here she is, the original BBW -- the "Venus of Willendorf". An ancient fertility carving, she is thought to have represented fertile womanhood.

 

 

Sir Frederic Leighton's Flaming June, painted in 1895.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another Leighton, Acme and Septimus, painted in 1868.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Sybil by Michelangelo, featured in his Last Judgement.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Peter Paul Rubens' The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Another Rubens, The Judgement of Paris. Paris was given the task of deciding which of the three Greek goddesses were most beautiful, Athena, Aphrodite or Hera.

 

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