Ivan Aivazovsky

December 5th, 2009 admin

Russian painter Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian) was born in Crimea, an island-like peninsula that extends the southern part of Ukraine into the Black Sea. In a career that spanned a good deal of the 19th Century, he painted nearly 6,000 canvases, over half of which were seascapes. He painted the sea at rest and roiled with storms, studded with ships and clear of human presence, in day an night, Winter and Summer, through war and peace and from shore to open ocean. He is known as one of the great sea painters of the era. Born into an Armenian family …


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