Self-portrait of Madame Vigée-Le Brun The painter Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1755-1842) is considered one of the greatest portraitists of her from her time, technically gifted and decidedly prolific, so much so that she signed over nine hundred canvases. Surely her most important patron
Malnourished and weakened they jumped with a penalty frog, played volleyball and ran for the hundred. Sports struggles were to give them, at least a substitute for normality. Who? Prisoners of POW camps who, in 1940 and 1944, organized their - as they proudly called them - games behind barbed wire.
Great Britain defeated the Germans in the Battle of Britain only thanks to Polish pilots flying in English and Polish fighter squadrons. Had it not been for the Poles, the air defense of Great Britain would have been broken, and this would have meant the landing of Wehrmacht troops on English beache
Face of Cecilia Gallerani, famous Lady with an Ermine painted by Leonardo at the end of the 1400s Cecilia Gallerani , the beautiful girl immortalized by Leonardo da Vinci perhaps in 1489 (the date is uncertain), known in the History of Art as The Lady with the ermine , sports a refine