A Sailing Ship on a High Sea by Moonlight (1840s) by Ivan Aivazovsky @AmuzeArt

Uploaded June 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

Art Shorts #359: A brief discussion of A Sailing Ship on a High Sea by Moonlight, painted in the 1840s by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900).

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