Great art explained: Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581

Painting of a distressed man with wide eyes holding a dying man with a bloody head. They lie on a red pattered carpet near a toppled throne, dark, rich tones in the background.

Why Ilya Repin’s masterpiece of Ivan the Terrible, first banned in 1885, remains one of Russia’s most controversial paintings

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