The image of man mysteriously connected with the original - it has long been known. Sudden death overtook models of many famous artists.

Favourite model Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens was his young wife Isabella. It is written almost all of its famous Madonna. Loved the artist to paint portraits and his little daughter. Isabella did not live up to 35 years, and daughter died at the age of 12.

Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn with pleasure painted portraits of his dearly beloved wife Saskia. Her image is depicted on the famous "self-Portrait with Saskia on his lap, and in the picture "flora". The young woman was early consumed by tuberculosis and died when she was only 30 years. The same fate befell the children of the artist, which he portrayed with great love: three children died in infancy. Survived only Titus, and he died early, at the age of 27. Some time after the death of Saskia at Rembrandt's new Muse - Hendrik Stoffels. Her portraits by such canvases of the artist, as "the Girl at the window", "Bathing woman, Woman in bed." The Hendrik also died suddenly.

For a famous painting "Maha Nude" and "Maha dressed" great Francisca Goya posed the Duchess of Alba. Despite the fact that she was in good health, after completing work on the paintings of the young beautiful woman died. Still not known precisely the cause of her sudden death.

My favorite model AME-deo Modigliani - student Jeanne Buten - posed for the most famous paintings of the artist. Fate it was sad: she jumped out of the window and died. Maybe the reason is that she lost her love: shortly before her suicide was killed and the artist himself.

Of all the models Pablo Picasso only one Francoise Gilo managed to keep the mind and the life, and even then, probably because it is time left artist.

Dancer Olga Khokhlova, his first wife, the artist depicted first as a wonderful thoughtful virgin, and later as the music itself and the real Spain, went crazy. The same fate Yugoslav artist Dora Maar, which for 9 years was the Muse and model Picasso: it is a long time in a psychiatric hospital.

Marie-Therese Walter, who bore him a daughter, Maya, and Jacqueline Rock, Picasso's wife, and shot himself.

Russian artists glory "black seer" earned Ilya Repin. On the tip of his brush - most of the victims.

Much earlier Repin of umerla from tuberculosis his young wife. He had scarcely finished the work on the portrait of the surgeon Nikolay Pirogov and composer modest Mussorgsky, as the very next day they departed for the other world. Repin finished the portrait of Prime Minister Alexander Stolypin the day before his death. Died and author Alexey Pisemsky posed Ilya Repin. And here is a portrait of Fyodor Tyutchev Repin did not even have time to start: the poet in the same month fell ill and soon died.

The artist posed by many, and among them - writer Vsevolod Garshin, which soon ran into the stairwell from the site of the fourth floor.

Known sad fate M.I. Lopukhina, who posed to Vladimir Borovikovsky. From the portrait we look young, beautiful girl, and three years later she dies from galloping consumption.

The same thing happened with sweetheart Konstantin Somov, who posed for him for the painting "Lady in blue". Artist Elizabeth Martynov died when she was 37 years old.

This sad tradition, when the portraits of the "kill" the original, unfortunately, continues to this day. In Moscow there are rumours that the death of the daughter of artist Alexander Shilov was not accidental. He pretty much drew his beautiful daughter, and at 16 she died from a terminal illness.

The wife of Ilya Glazunov, after he wrote her portrait, fell out of the window under mysterious circumstances.