'Sunset over Ischia' (1873) by Ivan Aivazovsky
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'The Ninth Wave' (1850) by Ivan Aivazovsky
In old sailing sayings, the ninth wave is the most powerful and destructive of a wave cycle. In this famous painting, the ninth one is approaching fast in all its terrible majesty...
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Aivazovskiy is mainly known for the amazing water in his paintings. Check out «Девятый Вал» (don’t known how it’d be called in English - Ninth Wave?, Highest Wave?) — ‘tis his most heard of painting. Kinda like Mona Lisa for Leonardo Da Vinci
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