Naked truth: Italian nude models not paid enough

BARE MINIMUM: Of the 300 nude models in Italy only about 50 of them have full time contracts.

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Rome: This is one profession where a dress code isn’t about what you wear to work, but what you don't wear. Now, Italian nude models say what they're making for baring all just isn’t enough, and they want the government to step in.

When Anna Elisa Fattori comes to work the first thing she does is to take off her clothes, all of them. Anna Elisa is a professional nude model working at Rome's art academy

“It is a tough job! It doesn't seem to be but you know, try it! Put yourself in front of the mirror and then stay for a long time in a pose. You start: Oh my back, oh something is strange here. It is not easy,” Anna says.

She is one of about 300 people in Italy who do this. But only about 50 of them have full time contracts. They recently went on strike demanding a full time pay for a work they say not everyone can do.

"It is not easy because you are naked, so you have to be very comfortable with your body and have a nice relation with everybody but be neither too open nor too close,” Elisa adds.

Italy's renaissance art is filled with naked men and women. Back then though artists mostly used prostitutes and lovers as models and muses. It was often done with the complicity of priests who wanted the walls of churches painted by famous artists.

But art modeling was not a profession during Renaissance, and by most accounts art didn't really suffer.