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 leaders of the Russian Tsarist Empire. Aivazovsky took part in numerous maneuvers of the Russian Navy and documented the naval power of Russia artistically. The naval painting enjoyed a high popularity in the 19th century, as the navy in the imperial pursuit of the colonial powers took a central role as a national prestige project. Aivazovsky received a correspondingly high recognition also in other European countries. Aivazovsky completed a classical education at the St.Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, where he specialized in landscape painting and battle paintings. As an outstanding graduate of the Academy, he became popular with commissioned works for the Russian Admiralty.
The genre of marine painting determined throughout life the complete works of Aivazovsky, born in the Crimea, who left behind a comprehensive body of work with more than 6000 paintings. A deep impression on the artist left behind two historical events that directly affected him through his homeland and his descent. The Crimean War intensified its nationalist perspective, which makes it one of the best-known visual artists in Russia to this day. 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. In the center of his early seascapes was accordingly the power of the elements and the struggle of man against the superior power of the natural forces of the sea. A four-year trip to Europe, during which he discovered especially the Italian Renaissance art for himself and an encounter with the British painter William Turner, influenced his artistic development sustainable. But while Turner, deeply impressed by the works of Aivazovsky, was moving toward a dematerialisation of the subject, Aivazovsky increasingly resorted to realistic portrayals in his maritime pieces.
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.jpg "Russian-Turkish Sea Battle of Sinop on 18th November 1853, 1853 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "View of Constantinople by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "The Battle of Sinop on 18th November 1853 (Night after Battle) by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "The Disaster of the Liner Ingermanland at Skagerrake near Norway on August 30th, 1842 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Arrival into Sebastopol Bay, 1852 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
_on_the_Shore_of_the_Black_Sea_1897_-_(MeisterDrucke-316288).jpg "Pushkin (1799-1837) on the Shore of the Black Sea, 1897 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "American ships off the Rock of Gibraltar by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "San Lazzaro degli Armeni by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Christopher Columbus sailing from Palos, 1892 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Storm at the seashore by Nice, 1885 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "The Descent of Noah from Mount Ararat by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "The Bay of Naples, 1844. by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "View over Odessa at moonlight night, 1896 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Capture of the Turkish Troopship Mersina by the Steamer Russia on 13 December 1877, 1877 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Sunset over Yalta by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Rage Of Elements by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Poseidons travel over the sea, 1894 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "The Birth of Aphrodite, 1887 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Brig Mercury’ Attacked by Two Turkish Ships. by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "The Disembarkation of Christopher Columbus on San Salvador, 12th October 1492, 1892 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "The Deluge, 1864 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Frigate on a sea, 1838 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Imperial bath-house, 1848 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Gibraltar by Night, 1844 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Burning ship An episode of the Russian-Turkish War, 1896 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Ship off the Crimean Coast , 1881. by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
.jpg "Ice drifting on the Dnieper River, 1872 by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky")
