Da Vinci, Vermeer, Sargent! Harper’s Bazaar has replaced the masters’ muses with today’s modern heroines. In the glossy’s November issue, dubbed the “Art of Beauty” and considered a collector’s edition, Winnie Harlow is transformed into Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Halima Aden becomes Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, and Hari Nef transforms into John Singer Sargent’s Madame X. While Nef happens to be a dead ringer for Sargent’s portrait of the young socialite Virginie Amélie Avegno Gautreau, the shoot is meant to reflect the changing standards of beauty in the 21st century.

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