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Courtesans of Venice were long one of the city's main attractions.
The remarks about them in Montaigne's "Journal" have a striking relevance to the cruel picture that Carpaccio painted of two of them.
"He did not find there that famous beauty that people attribute to the ladies of Venice, although he saw the noblest of them that ply their trade. But the deemed this more amazing than anything else, that he saw such a great number of them, some one hundred and fity or thereabouts, spending so mcuh money on furniture and clothing as if they were princesses, while having no other money to keep themselves than that earned by the exercising of their trade."
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