Ivan Aivazovsky

1817–1900 · Russian Empire · Romanticism

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900) was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born to Armenian parents in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. Wikipedia

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The sea in every mood: towering waves, shipwrecks, moonlight and glowing sunsets on water.

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“The Ninth Wave”, 1850 — Russian Museum
“Brig “Mercury” Attacked by Two Turkish Ships”, 1892 — Feodosia National Gallery I. K. Aivazovsky
“The Wrath of the Seas”, 1886
“The Black Sea”, 1881 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Rainbow”, 1873 — Tretyakov Gallery
“The Wave”, 1889 — Russian Museum
“A Moonlit Night on the Bosphorus”, 1894 — Tretyakov Gallery
“A. S. Pushkin at the Black Sea coast”, 1887 — V. V. Vereshchagin Mykolaiv Art Museum
“Battle of Chesma”, 1848 — Feodosia National Gallery I. K. Aivazovsky
“The Maiden's Tower”, 1848 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Descent of Noah from Ararat”, 1887 — National Gallery of Armenia
“Sea”, 1864 — Feodosia National Gallery I. K. Aivazovsky
“Parade of the Black Sea Fleet”, 1886 — Central Naval Museum
“Winter Caravan on Road”, 1857 — Smolensk Art Gallery
“Theodosia. Moonlight night”, 1852
“Ship in a storm”, 1899 — National Art Museum of Azerbaijan
“Chaos. The Genesis”, 1841 — San Lazzaro degli Armeni
“Broad landscape with settlers”, 1856
“Night at the Rodos island”, 1850 — Belarusian National Arts Museum
“Byron's visit to the Mekhitarists in Surb Ghazar Island”, 1899 — National Gallery of Armenia
“shipwreck”, 1876 — Feodosia National Gallery I. K. Aivazovsky
“Caucasus from the Sea”, 1894 — Feodosia National Gallery I. K. Aivazovsky
“Sunny Day”, 1884 — Feodosia National Gallery I. K. Aivazovsky
“The survivors”, 1895
“Self-portrait”, 1874 — Uffizi Gallery
“Fishermen on the shore”
“Seascape”, 1885 — Hermitage Museum
“Ship Amid the Stormy Sea”, 1887 — Hermitage Museum
“Brig ''Mercury'' meets with the Russian squadron after the victory over two Turkish ships”, 1848 — Russian Museum
“Ship by Moonlight”, 1868 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“A Ship in a Stormy Sea”, 1892 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Large raid in Kronstadt”, 1836 — Russian Museum
“Ukrainian landscape with chumaks in the moonlight”, 1869 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Windmill by the Sea”, 1837 — Russian Museum
“End of Storm”, 1839 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Storm”, 1854 — Russian Museum
“Storm”, 1851 — Russian Museum
“Venetian lagoon. View of the island of San Giorgio.”, 1844 — Tretyakov Gallery
“Alexander Pushkin at the Top of Ai-Petri at Sunrise”, 1899 — Russian Museum
“View to the sea coast near St. Petersburg”, 1835 — Tretyakov Gallery

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