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Ivan Aivazovsky

1817 - 1900

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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Russian: Иван Константинович Айвазовский; 29 July [O.S. 17 July] 1817 – 2 May [O.S. 19 April] 1900) was an Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there. Following his education at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, Aivazovsky traveled to Europe and lived briefly in Italy in the early 1840s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ivan Aivazovsky has received more than 1,206,341 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Ivan Aivazovsky is the 109th most popular painter (down from 107th in 2019). (up from 25th in 2019)

Ivan Aivazovsky is most famous for his paintings of the sea and seascapes.

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Among painters, Ivan Aivazovsky ranks 109 out of 1,421. Before him are Oskar Kokoschka, Georges de La Tour, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Guido Reni, Yayoi Kusama, and Tamara de Lempicka. After him are Simone Martini, Antonio da Correggio, Giorgio de Chirico, Bronzino, Annibale Carracci, and Mary Cassatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1817, Ivan Aivazovsky ranks 4. Before him are Henry David Thoreau, Theodor Mommsen, and William III of the Netherlands. After him are Bahá'u'lláh, Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Charles-François Daubigny, Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Archduke Albrecht, Duke of Teschen, Syed Ahmad Khan, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, and Niels Gade. Among people deceased in 1900, Ivan Aivazovsky ranks 7. Before him are Friedrich Nietzsche, Oscar Wilde, Gottlieb Daimler, Max Müller, Wilhelm Steinitz, and Umberto I of Italy. After him are Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, John Ruskin, Vladimir Solovyov, Étienne Lenoir, Wilhelm Liebknecht, and John Sherman.

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