demlet comments on I'm sorry Boblin

[–] demlet@lemmy.world 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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

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[–] xErah@anarchist.nexus 4 points 7 months ago

From the Wikipedia article:

“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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