Tag Archives: Ivan Aivazovsky

1900: Exploding Ship

Ivan Aivazovsky: Exploding Ship (1900). The painting is unfinished; Aivazovsky was painting it the day he died.

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1878: Pyramid

Ivan Aivazovsky: The Great Pyramid of Giza (1878)

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1869: Ayu Dag

Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky: View of the Ayu Dag (1869)

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1850: The Ninth Wave

Ivan Aivazovsky: The Ninth Wave (1850) The title is a reference to a traditional belief among sailors that waves grow larger and larger in a sequence up to the ninth wave—the largest—and then the sequence begins again.

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