Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli hanged. Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci The dangling body seen in the drawing is that Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli, while the author of the work is Leonardo da Vinci. As you can see, it is a tragic moment fixed forever on paper, that of the hanging of a man. B
In her youth she was hailed the most beautiful woman in Europe. She started with an Istanbul harem and ended as the wife of one of the richest people in Poland. Her fascinating life ended with an extraordinary journey. A journey in which a womans body ... became a puppet, pretending to be a living p
When the dust of the scandal cleared, the lights went out and the newspapers dealt with other shocking topics - he was left alone on the stage. Alfred Dreyfus, accused of espionage for Germany after a famous scandal, tried to return to normal life. Has he succeeded? On September 19, 1899, a deci
In the aftermath of the Second World War on the European continent, the Battle of Berlin marks the great culmination in the fall of the Third Reich. For the Soviet Union, the fall, after four years of hard fighting, of the capital of Adolf Hitler, marked the end of a long and very hard war of surviv