Antokolsky ivan the terrible biography
Ivan the Terrible (–) Ivan IV was the son of Grand Prince Vasily III, of the House of Rurik, and Elena Glinskaya, who came from a line of Lithuanian..
When Antokolski turned his attention to Russian history, his Ivan the Terrible () impressed Emperor Alexander II, who acquired it for the Hermitage.
Mark Antokolski
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Mark Matveevich Antokolski in Russian;
born in 1843 in the city of Vilna, present-day Vilnius, Lithuania,
died in 1902 in Frankfurt, Germany), was a Russian sculptor who was
admired for psychological complexity of his historical images and
panned for occasional lapses into sentimentalism.
He was born as Mordukh Matysovich Antokolsky.
Antokolski studied in
the Imperial Academy of Arts (1862¨C68). He first began with Jewish
themes, statues: "Jewish Tailor", "Nathan The Wise", "Inquisition's
Attack against Jews", "Argument over the Talmud".
From 1868-1870, Mark Antokolski lived in Berlin.
His statue of "Ivan
the Terrible" (1870) was purchased for the Hermitage by Tsar Alexander
II of Russia.
The Russian tsar approved his work and awarded the
sculptor the title of academic. Mark Antokolski believed that
sculpture was a social and humane ideal. In order to improv