Ivan Aivazovsky painted water as no one else did, his waves reflecting light and capturing the softest glimmers of stars with their foam-capped …
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Nautical Art From the Russian Empire: The Work of Ivan Aivazovsky
Artists often have favorite subjects to which they return time and again. Ivan Aivazovsky painted the sea, inspiring a whole generation of European Romantic artists.
Few periods in European history caused such significant social and cultural change as one single year – 1848. Later called the Spring of Nations, the …
Joseph Mallord William Turner, or JMW Turner, was born into a lower-middle-class family in London in 1775. He is known for his oil paintings and …
The Romanticism movement occurred during a historical period beginning from the late eighteenth century (sometimes dated as 1783-89, the period of …
The French Revolution brings a defined set of associations to one’s mind: the exemplary decadent aristocracy, the guillotine that became synonymous …
