Attack on Repin (Ivan the Terrible) Painting in Tretyakov Gallery

[TomSea]

May 26 2018 - 12:05
Attack on Repin Painting in Tretyakov Gallery

Repin's painting depicts Ivan the Terrible after fatally wounding his son.

On Friday evening at the Tretyakov Gallery just five minutes before closing time, a man dashed past a group of gallery guards doing a last walk-through of the museum, ran into the empty hall of works by Ilya Repin, and used a metal stanchion to bash the painting “Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan 16 November 1581.”

The painting, which depicts the dramatic scene of the horrified tsar cradling his dying son after striking him over the head, is encased in glass for climate control. The assailant broke through the glass and, according to a report of the Tretyakov Gallery, ripped the canvas in three places, doing serious damage to the work.

Read more at: https://themoscowtimes.com/news/attack-on-repin-painting-in-tretyakov-gallery-61591

Serious damage done but the area of the faces reports say, were not damaged and those are, probably, the most important areas of this famous painting. Even I had seen images of this painting before.

[Sanguine]

Interesting story.  Apparently the person who attacked the painting did so because he doesn't believe that Ivan killed his son.  Apparently, a number of Russians don't and revere Ivan the Terrible and would like to see him sainted along with Rasputin and Stalin. 

[TomSea]

Interesting story.  Apparently the person who attacked the painting did so because he doesn't believe that Ivan killed his son.  Apparently, a number of Russians don't and revere Ivan the Terrible and would like to see him sainted along with Rasputin and Stalin.

That is a real good answer, sometimes there is more to the story.