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Portrait of Tsar Ivan IV the Terrible. Before mid-18th century
Unknown Artist
Oil on canvas
72 х 61
State Russian Museum
Annotation
This portrait of Ivan the Terrible was painted roughly a century and a half after his death, and relies mainly on historical and literary descriptions. It is thus more an imagined, rather than a genuine, representation of the Tsar.
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