THE EVENT All those great women painters we never heard of — who knew? La Belle No e gala really was “the beautiful night” to get acquainted with these Italian women artists from Renaissance to Baroque, the exhibition’s theme at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Founded by Wilhelmina Cole Holladay (after she was dismayed so many U.S. museum walls were “men only” compared with museums abroad), the NMWA has a racted a million and a half visitors since 1987. THE SCENE Charlo e Buxton and Cindy Jones co-chaired the stellar sold-out event, which had a waiting list soon a er the invitations went out. The gala décor matched the magnifi cence of the museum’s ballroom with its sweeping double-staircase. THE GUESTS Farah Pahlavi, the former empress of Iran, and her son Reza Pahlavi; Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Jane; the ambassadors of Hungary, Italy and Austria; HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson and Marcia; Nicholas and Eleanor Chabraja; Caroline Rose Hunt; Mary Mochary and Philip Wine; Climis and NMWA President Emerita Carol Lascaris; John and Joy Safer; ABC’s Robin Roberts; Sharad and Mahinder Tak; Julia and Mike Connors; Channel 9’s Andrea Roane; Ashor and Tuti Kaveeshwar; Judy Esfandiary; Gilan and Milton Corn; Julia and Stephen Hopping; Alexine and Aaron Jackson; Peter and Wendy Gowdy; and Roger and Nancy Stevenson.