Aivazovsky at 200: Turkey’s Love Affair with a Russian-Armenian Painter
July 28, 2017
Aivazofsky Self-portrait, 1874, oil on canvas
BY SCOTT ABRAMSON
Special to Asbarez
In late-nineteenth-century Russia, a speechless beholder of something very beautiful always had recourse to a popular cliche when a description was needed but inspiration failed. A sight “worthy of Aivazovsky’s brush”
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