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PHOTOGRAPHY IVÁN AGUIRRE. ART DIRECTION MICHELLE AVIÑA. STYLIST ELLA CEPEDA. MODELS CHARLOTTE STEVENS FOR MARILYN AGENCY, NEJILKA AND OLYA FOR NEW ICON MODELS NYC. HAIR NIKO WEDDLE. MAKEUP MOISES RAMIREZ. SET STYLIST ALICE MARTINELLI. MAKEUP ASSISTANT AYA TARIQ. ASSISTANT STYLIST MANUEL D. LIRA. EDITORIAL ASSISTANT MEGHAN WEST. I N OUR LEXICON OF GREAT ART, WE DEFINE MASTERPIECES AS MUCH BY THE MASTERS WHO CREATED THEM AS BY THE MUSES WHO INSPIRED THEM. CARAVAGGIO'S MARTHA AND MARY MAGDALENE. DA VINCI'S MONA LISA. PICASSO'S LES DEMOISELLES D'AVIGNON. TITIAN'S VENUS OF URBINO. THESE WOMEN REPRESENT THE FEMALE CONDITION IN ITS MOST RAW FORM: REPENTING SINNER, NUDE PROSTITUTE, GODDESS OF LOVE, ENIGMATIC BEAUTY. IT IS IN THIS COMPLEXITY OF NUANCE — LIGHTNESS BLENDED WITH DARK, THE VIRGINAL EMBODIED BY THE DEVILISH — WHERE TRUE MASTERY LIES. THE NOTION OF THE MUSE HAS, ALL ALONG, BEEN THE MASTERPIECE.