Carved in marble, the David is a statue of more than four meters, made by Michelangelo between 1501 and 1504. A work of the Renaissance, he is the incarnation of the ideal of the man of the time:a perfect aesthetic like the statues of Antiquity, but also a citizen-warrior who puts his strength in th
“Extraction of mental illness” by Hieronymus Bosch (1492). Prado Museum, Madrid In past centuries, very little knowledge about mental illness , caused the pathologies related to this sphere of the organism to be treated, obviously in a clumsy way and almost always with worse results than the dis
Everyone knows the figure of a masked avenger in a black hat and cape, leaving a sign of the letter Z behind him. However, the story of Zorro is a story about the desperation of a group of oppressed people who, as a result of suffering harm and a general sense of injustice, decided to take matters i
It was Wojciech Jaruzelski who demanded the introduction of the Soviet Army to Poland to fight Solidarity, and the Soviet Union ruled out any intervention and insisted on the declaration of martial law. One of the most famous Russian historians, Rudolf G. Pichoja, explains what it really was like wi