Anna Morandi Manzolini Her was self-portrait showing her dissecting a human brain was placed from 1776 in the anatomy museum of the Institute of Sciences in Palazzo Poggi alongside her wax bust of her husband Giovanni Manzolini. They were returned to the Poggi in 2000. – The title of Professor of Anatomy by the Institute of Bologna, 1756 – The added title of Modelatrice by the Institute of Bologna, 1760 – Honored by numerous heads of state – Emperor Joseph II of Austria bought one of her models and showed his appreciation of her skill and attainments – Catherine II of Russia invited
18th century and the classical period (including Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart). The 18th century also marked the end of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth as an independent state. The once-powerful and vast kingdom, which had once conquered Moscow and defeated great Ottoman armies, collapsed under numerous invasions. Its semi-democratic government system was not robust enough to rival the neighboring monarchies of the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire and the Austrian Empire which divided the Commonwealth territories between themselves, changing the landscape of Central European politics for the next hundred years. European colonization of the Americas and other parts of the world