2012 experiment, researchers Crossley, Cornelissen and Tovée asked men and women to depict an attractive female body and the majority of them chose the same ideal. The women who participated in this experiment drew their ideal bodies with enlarged busts and narrowed the rest of their bodies. The male participants also depicted their ideal partner with the same image. The researchers state, "For both sexes, the primary predictor of female beauty is a relatively low BMI combined with a relatively curvaceous body". However the generality of their conclusions was limited given their small sample size and single ethnicity of participants. See also List of artists focused on the female form References Cited sources External links Art and love in Renaissance Italy, Issued in connection with an exhibition held Nov 2008–Feb 2009, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (see Belle: Picturing Beautiful Women; pp. 246–254) Body shape Female beauty Feminism and health Human body Physical attractiveness