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Ivan Aivazovsky
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.
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culture · Russian-Armenian marine painter (1817–1900) · painter · visual artist · art collector · also Ivan Aivazovsky, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Hovhannēs Ayvazyan, Ivan Konstantinovich Aiwasoffski, Ivan Konstantinovich Alwasoffski, Ivan Haivazovsky
Born 17 July 1817 · Died 19 April 1900 · Q181568
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: The Met Shouldn’t Have Reclassified Ivan Aivazovsky as "Ukrainian"
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2020· 1 entry
His 1878 painting The Bay of Naples sold for $2
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2017· 2 entries
It was reported that a fake of one of the paintings stolen from Tarantsev's house was presented to Armenian president Serzh Sargsyan by the Pyunik foundation
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View on Revel (1845), stolen from the Dmitrov Kremlin Museum in 1976, was found at Koller auction house in Zürich, Switzerland
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2016· 1 entry
And 2017 the 200th anniversary of Aivazovsky was celebrated with major exhibitions in Russia, Ukraine, and Armenia
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2014· 1 entry
Prompting Ukraine to call for an international boycott of the Tretyakov Gallery
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2007· 2 entries
His painting American Shipping off the Rock of Gibraltar auctioned at £2
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When Abdullah Gül became president of Turkey, he brought paintings by Aivazovsky up from the basement to hang in his office during redecoration of the presidential palace, the Çankaya Mansion in Ankara
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2006· 1 entry
The Varangians on the Dnieper sold for $3
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2004· 1 entry
His Saint Isaac's Cathedral On A Frosty Day, a rare cityscape, sold for around £1 million ($2
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2003· 1 entry
And a bust was erected in Stepanakert, the capital of Nagorno-Karabakh, in December 2021
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1939· 1 entry
And a statue of Aivazovsky and his brother Gabriel was erected in Simferopol, Crimea in 1999
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1900· 1 entry
Died 1900-04-19.
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1898· 1 entry
Munsey's Magazine wrote that Aivazovsky is "better known to the world at large than any other artist of his nationality, with the exception of the sensational Verestchagin"
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1896· 1 entry
At 79, Aivazovsky was promoted to the rank of full privy councillor
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1892· 1 entry
Is now called Ayvazovskaya and is one of the two stations within the city of Feodosia
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1890· 1 entry
The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary described him as the "best Russian marine painter"
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1887· 1 entry
As part of a jubilee celebration of his career, Aivazovsky hosted a dinner for 150 friends
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1885· 1 entry
Was promoted to the rank of Privy Councilor
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1882· 3 entries
“became closer to [his] nation”
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"became closer to [his] nation", referring to the Armenian people
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Aivazovsky visited Moscow and St Petersburg and then toured the countryside of Russia by traveling along the Volga River in 1884
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1880· 2 entries
Aivazovsky opened an art gallery in his Feodosia house; it became the third museum in the Russian Empire, after the Hermitage Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery
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Is open to this day as the Aivazovsky National Art Gallery
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1876· 1 entry
Was made a member of the Academy of Arts in Florence and became the second Russian artist (after Orest Kiprensky) to paint a self-portrait for the Palazzo Pitti
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1874· 1 entry
The Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze (Florence Academy of Fine Art) asked him for a self-portrait to be hung in the Uffizi Gallery
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1872· 1 entry
Traveled to Nice and Florence to exhibit his paintings
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1871· 2 entries
Initiated the construction of the archaeological museum in Feodosia
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Founded the construction of a new Museum of Antiquities on Mount Mitridat modeled after a typical Ancient Greek temple of the Doric order
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1870· 1 entry
Aivazovsky was made an Actual Civil Councilor, the fourth highest civil rank in Russia
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1868· 2 entries
Aivazovsky traveled in the Caucasus and visited the Russian part of Armenia for the first time
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Once again visited Constantinople and produced a series of works about the Greek resistance to the Turks, during the Great Cretan Revolution
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1865· 1 entry
And was awarded a salary by the Imperial Academy of Arts the same year
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1860· 1 entry
And divorced in 1877 with permission from the Armenian Church, since Graves was a Lutheran
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1857· 2 entries
Awarded Knight of the Legion of Honour (1857).
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Aivazovsky visited Constantinople and was awarded the Order of the Medjidie
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1855· 1 entry
At age 13–14, Kuindzhi visited Feodosia to study with Aivazovsky, however, he was engaged merely to mix paints and instead studied with Adolf Fessler, Aivazovsky's student
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1853· 1 entry
Some 22 burial mounds were excavated on Mount Tepe-Oba, which mostly contained broken amphorae and bones, but also golden necklaces, earrings, a female head, a chain with a sphinx, a sphinx with woman's head, the head of
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1851· 1 entry
Traveling with the Russian emperor Nicholas I, Aivazovsky sailed to Sevastopol to participate in military maneuvers
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1848· 2 entries
Aivazovsky married Julia Graves, an English governess
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Along with a personal noble title, was the one at Shakh-Mamai (now called Ayvazovskoye)
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1847· 1 entry
Was given the title of professor of seascape painting by the Imperial Academy of Arts and elevated to the rank of nobility
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1845· 3 entries
And 1846, Aivazovsky attended the maneuvers of the Black Sea Fleet and the Baltic Fleet at Petergof, near the imperial palace
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Aivazovsky settled in his hometown of Feodosia, where he built a house and studio
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Aivazovsky traveled to the Aegean Sea with Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich and visited the Ottoman capital, Constantinople, and the Greek islands of Patmos and Rhodes
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1840· 1 entry
Aivazovsky was sent by the Imperial Academy of Arts to study in Europe
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1839· 1 entry
Took part in military exercises in the shores of Crimea, where he met Russian admirals Mikhail Lazarev, Pavel Nakhimov and Vladimir Kornilov
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1838· 1 entry
And spent two years in his native Crimea
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1837· 3 entries
Won Large gold medal of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1837).
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Studied at Imperial Academy of Arts (1833–1837).
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Aivazovsky joined the battle-painting class of Alexander Sauerweid and participated in Baltic Fleet exercises in the Gulf of Finland
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1835· 1 entry
Was awarded with a silver medal and appointed assistant to the French painter Philippe Tanneur
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1833· 2 entries
Studied at Simferopol gymnasium №1 (1830–1833).
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Aivazovsky arrived in the Russian capital, Saint Petersburg, to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Maxim Vorobiev's landscape class
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1830· 1 entry
And attended the city's Russian gymnasium
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1817· 1 entry
Born 1817-07-17.
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