Ivan Aivazovsky Ivan Aivazovsky, one of the greatest masters of aquatic painting, was a Russian Romantic artist who flourished between 29 July 1817 to 2 May 1900. His real identity is Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky. He was christened as Hovhannes Aivazian and was generally situated in the Black Sea town of Feodosia in Crimea, where he was born into an Armenian family.Aivazovsky moved to Europe after getting his degree at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg, and he spent a brief period there during the early 1840s. When he finally returned to Russia, he was given the post of Russian... View more
