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[-] demlet@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_the_Terrible_and_His_Son_Ivan?wprov=sfla1

Another commenter called it eerie, but I would say more tragic. It depicts the moment after Ivan has struck his son a deadly blow in a fit of rage.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that Ivan the Terrible posed/modelled for the painting that depicted the evebt

[-] crater2150@feddit.org 4 points 3 hours ago

From the Wikipedia link above:

Repin used Grigoriy Myasoyedov, his friend and fellow artist, as the model for Ivan the Terrible, and writer Vsevolod Garshin for the Tsarevich.

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