Marine art
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Marine art or maritime art is a form of figurative art that portrays or draws its main inspiration from the sea. Maritime painting is a genre that depicts ships and the sea, being particularly strong
Rembrandt's stolen masterpiece, The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633).
20th-century ukiyo-e print of Boats in Snow
Willem van de Velde the Elder's The Capture of the Royal Prince during the Four Days' Battle, 1666.
The reed boat petroglyph at Gobustan.
Ivan Aivazovsky
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Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky was a Russian Romantic painter who is considered one of the greatest masters of marine art. Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born to Armenian parents in the Black
Marine art
…Friedrich, who added an element of Romantic mysticism, as in The Stages of Life (1835); his The Sea of Ice is less typical, showing a polar shipwreck. Ivan Aivazovsky continued the old themes of battles, shipwrecks and storms with a full-blooded Russian Romanticism, as in The Ninth Wave (1850). River, harbour and…
Self-portrait, 1874, oil on canvas, 70.5 cm × 62.5 cm (27.8 in × 24.6 in), Uffizi, Florence (not in exhibition)
Aivazovsky's signature in Russian, 1850
Aivazovsky's signature in Armenian on oil painting from 1899
A self-portrait, 1830s–1840s