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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.
I have a hard time wrapping my head around the fact that Ivan the Terrible posed/modelled for the painting that depicted the evebt
From the Wikipedia link above:
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.”