Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was one of the most prominent Russian artists of the 19th century. As an official painter of the Russian Navy, he maintained close relations with the highest military ranks of the Russian Tsarist Empire. Aivazovsky took part in numerous maneuvers of the Russian Navy and artistically documented Russia's naval power. Naval painting enjoyed great popularity in the 19th century, as the navy played a central role in the imperial aspirations of the colonial powers as a national prestige project. Aivazovsky received correspondingly high recognition in other European countries. Aivazovsky underwent classical training at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art, where he specialized in landscape painting and battle scenes. As an outstanding graduate of the academy, he became popular with commissioned works for the Russian admiralty.
Throughout his life, the genre of marine painting determined the entire oeuvre of Aivazovsky, who was born in the Crimea and left behind an extensive oeuvre of over 6000 paintings. A deep impression on the artist was left by two historical events which directly affected him through his home country and his ancestry. The Crimean War intensified his nationalist perspective, which still makes him one of the most famous visual artists in Russia today. The genocide of the Armenians in the 1890s found its way into the late work of the Armenian-born painter.
Aivazovsky began his career under the strong influence of romantic landscape painting. Accordingly, his early seascapes focused on the power of the elements and man's struggle against the superiority of the natural forces of the sea. A four-year trip to Europe, during which he discovered Italian Renaissance art in particular, and an encounter with the British painter William Turner had a lasting influence on his artistic development. However, while Turner, who was deeply impressed by Aivazovsky's works, moved towards a dematerialization of the representational, Aivazovsky increasingly resorted to realistic modes of representation in his seascapes.
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.jpg "Sunset over Yalta by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Moon Night by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Bay of Naples at Moonlit Night by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Galata Tower By Moonlight by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "I.K. Aivazovsky, The Shipwreck / Painting, 1888 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Naples by Night, 1850 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Gibraltar by Night by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Night at Gurzuf, 1891 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Constantinople, Harbor by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Rage of Elements by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Shipwreck by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Golden Horn, 1895 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Battle of Navarino by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Descent of Noah from Mount Ararat by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Jesus Walks on Water by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Black Sea, 1881 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Battle of Sinop on 18th November 1853 (Night after Battle) by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "American ships off the Rock of Gibraltar by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Ship")
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.jpg "Winter Landscape by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Ship off the Crimean Coast, 1881 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Looking at the Black Sea by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Battle of Navarino, 20th October 1827 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Venice from the Lagoon at Sunset by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Constantinople at Evening by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Golden Horn, Turkey, after 1845 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Malaga, 1854 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Deluge by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "View of Tiflis by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Great Pyramid at Giza by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Peter the Great Lights a Beacon at Krasnoi Gorka by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Peasants Returning from the Fields at Sunset by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Ancient Greek Poets by the Water")
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.jpg "Christopher Columbus Sailing from Palos by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Parade of the Black Sea Fleet in 1849 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Searching for Survivors by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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_de_1877-1878_lattaque_des_voiliers_russes_su_-_(MeisterDrucke-1320857).jpg "Attack of the Russian Cutters on the Turkish Steam Battleship Assari Shevket in the Black Sea on 12 August 1877 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Disembarkation of Christopher Columbus on San Salvador, 12th October 1492 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Gondolier at Sea by Night by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Capture of the Turkish military transport")
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.jpg "Frigate on a Sea by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Russian-Turkish Sea Battle of Sinop on 18th November 1853 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Disaster of the Liner Ingermanland at Skagerrake near Norway on August 30th, 1842 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Ice drifting on the Dnieper River by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "View of Odessa by Moonlight, 1846 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Farewell, Free Element, O Sea! Alexander Pushkin on the Black Sea by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Venetian Lagoon, View of San Giorgio Maggiore by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The disaster of the British fleet off the coast of Balaclava on November 14th, 1854 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Brig Mercury Attacked by Two Turkish Ships on May 14th, 1829 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Constantinople by night by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "View of a Seascape with a Photo Portrait of the Artist by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "View of Constantinople by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Promenade at Sunset, 1869 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Ploughing the fields, Crimea, 1865 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "A Coastal Landscape with Shipping off Trebizond by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Sevastopol. Fort Constantine. Fort Nicholas, 1850s by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Morning on the Shore of the Sea, Sudak, 1856 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Bay of Naples, 1844 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Farewell, Free Element, O Sea! Alexander Pushkin on the Black Sea by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Capture of the Turkish Troopship Mersina by the Steamer Russia on 13 December 1877 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Ox-Carts in the Ukrainian Steppe by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Burning Ship: An Episode of the Russian-Turkish War, 1896 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Arrival of Peter the Great by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Alexander Pushkin on the Black Sea by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Battle in the Chios Channel by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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_(Capri_Island)_Peinture_de_Ivan_Konstantinovich_Aivazosky_-_(MeisterDrucke-1325587).jpg "Capri Island by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Landing of General N. Raewski at Subaschi in July 1839 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Battle of Navarino, 20th October 1827 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Sinking of the 84 Gun Ship Lefort in 1856 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "New Marine Barracks and Inner Harbor of Sevastopol by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Birth of Aphrodite by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Survivor by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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_en_Amerique_-_(MeisterDrucke-941614).jpg "The Arrival of Explorer Christopher Columbus in America by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "A Summer’s Day in Crimea by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "View over Odessa at moonlight night, 1896 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "The Creation of the World by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Pushkin Looking at the Black Sea by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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_on_the_Shore_of_the_Black_Sea_1897_-_(MeisterDrucke-316288).jpg "Pushkin on the Shore of the Black Sea by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Unknown Image by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "I.K.Aivazovsky, Stormy Sea by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "North Sea Storm, 1865 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Morning at Sea, Canvas, Oil by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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_Peinture_de_Ivan_Konstantinovich_Aivazosky_(I_-_(MeisterDrucke-1313770).jpg "The Ninth Wave by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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_Peinture_de_Ivan_Konstantin_-_(MeisterDrucke-1323578).jpg "The Rainbow, the Shipwreck by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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.jpg "Arrival into Sebastopol Bay by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
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