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Feb 7 2011

The Island of Rhodes by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky, 1861

Academician / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) / Russian - 1 year ago - troycapc

The Island of Rhodes by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky, 1861

This is a reproduction of “The Island of Rhodes” of 1861 by Ivan Constantinovich Aivazovsky.   This is wonderful example of Aivazovsky’s coastal combinations of seascape and landscape and is a wonderful representation of this gem of the Aegean as the sun is near the horizon.  Seascapes constitute more than half of his works.  This Armenian artist died in 1900 at the age of eighty-three years.  He burst upon the international scene in 1842 and was elected a member of five European Academies.  He received the French Legion of Honor and left more than 6000 works by the time of his death.  This masterpiece is in the Aivazovsky Art Gallery in his natal city, Theodosia in the Crimea, Ukraine.

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