Erwin Olaf's Royal Blood Project

The famous Dutch photographer Erwin Olaf has been doing commercial photography since 1996. His client list includes many famous brands such as Levis, Diesel, Hennessey, Heineken, Nokia, Microsoft. However, in contrast to his commercial activities, the photographer also does provocative photo projects. His most famous series was "The Royal Blood" in 2001, dedicated to members of royal families who died violently and caused quite a scandal.

This is a series of minimalist white-on-white portraits. Olaf was most condemned for sacrilege for the photograph of Princess Diana, on whose arm you can see the logo of the very car she crashed in while trying to escape from photographers. However, the images of other famous historical figures, dressed in all white and splattered with scarlet blood, deserve no less attention.

Diana, Princess of Wales, born Lady Diana Frances Spencer from 1981 to 1996, was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, now King Charles III of Britain. She is commonly known as Princess Diana, Lady Diana, or Lady Di.

On August 31, 1997, Diana died in a car accident in Paris, along with her lover Dodi al-Fayed; and a driver named Henri Paul. All but Diana died at the scene. Lady Di was taken from the scene (in the tunnel before the Pont de l'Alma on the Seine embankment) to the Salpêtrière hospital, where she died two hours later. The cause of the accident is not entirely clear, with several theories (the driver being drunk, the need to escape at speed from paparazzi, and various conspiracy theories).

Poppaea Sabina was the second wife of the Roman Emperor Nero. In 65 AD, 35-year-old Poppaea was pregnant with her second child (their first child, daughter Claudia, born in 63 AD, died in infancy). During a drunken family quarrel, Nero kicked his wife in the stomach. This led to a miscarriage and the death of Poppaea. Nero ordered her body to be embalmed and placed in the Mausoleum of Augustus. The Senate deified Poppaea and a temple was built in her honor.

Elisabeth of Austria, full name Amalia Eugenia Elisabeth, nicknamed Sissi or Zissi (in German transcription), born Princess of Bavaria - born December 24, 1837. After marriage, on April 24, 1854, she became the Austrian Empress. From May 8, 1867, Queen Consort of Hungary. The empress had luxurious hair, which she spent up to 3 hours a day caring for. She was killed in Geneva by a stab to the heart, inflicted by the anarchist Liugi Luccheni on September 10, 1889.

Jackie Kennedy Onassis, née Jacqueline Bouvier, was born on July 28, 1929. From 1953 to 1963, she was the wife of John Kennedy, an American politician, and from 1961, the President of the United States. John Kennedy was fatally wounded in front of his wife in November 1963. After his death, she married - in 1968 - the Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis. She belonged to one of the most noble aristocratic families in America. For a long time, she was considered an idol both in her homeland in America, and later in Europe. Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis died on May 19, 1994 from lymph node cancer.

Emperor Julius Caesar - born according to various sources on July 12 or 13, 100 or 102 BC. Ancient Roman statesman, politician, military leader, writer. On March 15, 44 BC, Caesar was heading to a meeting of the Senate. On the way, he was treacherously killed. More than forty wounds were found on the emperor's body.

Marie Antoinette, birth name Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna of Habsburg-Lorraine, was born on November 2, 1755 in Vienna. The youngest daughter of Emperor Franz I and Maria Theresa. Wife of King Louis XVI of France. Considered one of the most beautiful women of her time. At 12:15 p.m. on October 16, 1793, the queen was beheaded on what is now the Place de la Concorde in Paris.

Russian Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna (born Princess Alice Victoria Helena Louise Beatrice of Hesse-Darmstadt, 6 June 1872 – 17 July 1918) was a Russian empress and the wife of Nicholas II (since 1894). The fourth daughter of Grand Duke Ludwig IV of Hesse and by Rhine and Duchess Alice, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of England, she was shot by the Bolsheviks along with her entire family in 1918.

Louis XVI was born on August 23, 1754. The King of France from the Bourbon dynasty, son of the Dauphin Louis Ferdinand, succeeded his grandfather Louis XV in 1774. Under him, after the convocation of the Estates General in 1789, the Great French Revolution began. On September 21, 1792, he was deposed, tried by the Convention and executed on the same day by guillotine.