“the ninth wave” details ⋅ by ivan aivazovsky, c. 1850

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"I stood in the long whispering night, waiting for something, a sign, the approach of a distant light..."

✒Mark Strand, Black Sea
Ivan Aivazovsky, Black Sea at Night (1879) 🖌

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The Wrath Of The Seas, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1886, [1326 x 845]

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Abend auf der Krim. Ivan Aivazovsky, 1895 .

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Blogging the perennial power of depicting the sea as it is: bristling, briny, beautiful & bitter, and with enough light on the horizon to cheer us up during a pandemic. This one's for Ivan Aivazovsky, the finest painter of the sea EVER!

https://t.co/G8czzSaWWV

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“between the waves” ⋅ by ivan aivazovsky, c. 1898

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The Black Sea, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1881, [1134 x 820]

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Karadeniz'de Gece, Ivan Aivazovsky, 1879.

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Suggestions for return….#ARMENIA and
... In the clear sky, a snowy mountain with two peaks stood. I looked greedily at the biblical mountain, I saw the ark docking at its top....and the crow and dove flying away...

✒️Puškin, Trip to Arzrum
🖌️Aivazovsky, ARARAT, 1882

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"Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid."

"Lord, if it's you," Peter replied, "tell me to come to you on the water."

"Come," He said." ~ Matthew 14:27-29

🎨 Ivan Aivazovsky, "Christ Walks on Water", 1888

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[…] sono sulla collina
E il mio cuore come una zattera
S’allontana sulla separazione infinita
Va oltre i ricordi fino al mare pesante
Senza stelle nelle tenebre fitte.

Nazim Hikmet




Ivan Aivazovsky, Yalta, 1899

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The arrival of the Romantic era in the later part of the 18th century saw seascapes with more imagination and emotion; Ivan Aivazovsky, “Storm off the Coast of Odessa” (1898)

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Questo pittore è grandissimo... dipinge il mare in un modo sublime!
Buon pomeriggio festivo a te, Giuliano.😊🍀

🎨Dipinto di Ivan Aivazovsky, L'onda -1889

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Il mare è la dimora di tutto ciò che abbiamo perduto, di quello che non abbiamo avuto, dei desideri infranti, dei dolori, delle lacrime che abbiamo versato...

Osho






Ivan Aivazovsky, Wave, 1889

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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, Brig "Mercury" Attacked by Two Turkish Ships

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Ero a Venezia sul Ponte dei Sospiri, un palazzo da un lato, dall’altro una prigione; vidi il suo profilo emergere dall’acqua come al tocco della bacchetta magica.

George G. Byron





I. Aivazovsky, Byron a Venezia

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The Birth of Aphrodite by Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, 1887

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