Ivan Aivazovsky

1817–1900 · Romanticism

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky 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.

40 paintings

• Reval (Tallinn) (1845)
• View of Constantinople and the Bosphorus (1856)
• Crimean coast by moonlight (1853)
• French Ships Departing the Black Sea (1871)
• American Shipping off the Rock of Gibraltar (1873)
• Ox-carts in the Ukrainian steppe (1888)
• Sunset over Yalta (1861)
• Calm Sea (1887)
• Winter landscape (1876)
• Storm at sea (1873)
• A Summer’s Day in Crimea (1867)
• Sailing Ship on the Sea at Moonlight. (1840)
• Marine scene
• Night at Gurzof (1891)
• Night. The Tragedy at the Sea of Marmara (1897)
• A. S. Pushkin and Countess M. N. Raevskaya by the sea near Gurzuf (1886)
• The Ninth Wave (1850)
• Battle of Chesma (1848)
• In the roads, Evening (1867)
• Seascape
• St. Petersburg - Galleon on the docks (1850)
• Sea coast (1886)
• The storm at Cape Aya (1899)
• From Mleta to Gudauri (1868)
• Ship on Stormy Seas (1850)
• The Disembarkation of Christopher Columbus with Companions on Three Launches, on Friday 12th October
• Abandoning Ship (1882)
• The Bay of Yalta with the Magobi and Ai Petri mountains (1850)
• The Island of Ischia at Sunset (Sunset over Ischia) (1857)
• Stürmische See im Abendrot. (1896)
• A Ship of the Russian Navy off the Coast
• St. Petersburg (1850)
• Ship by Moonlight (1868)
• The Bay of Naples (1844)
• Seascape with a steamer. (1897)
• Shepherds with a flock of sheep. (1872)
• Sea (1864)
• The Black Sea (1881)
• Byron's visit to the Mekhitarists in Surb Ghazar Island (1899)
• Brig ''Mercury'' meets with the Russian squadron after the victory over two Turkish ships (1848)