Unbridled passion, limitless creativity and uncapped desires: of course, these attributes could be used to describe your relationship, but they're also descriptors of love stories between some of the world’s most talented artists.

Beginning as a teacher-student relationship that bloomed into marriage, the relationship of Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera was based on a shared love of painting and a mutual respect for each other’s creative works. Rivera repeatedly mentioned that his wife was the more talented artist of the pair...