El bergantín Mercury
El bergantín Mercury, después de derrotar a dos barcos turcos, se reúne con el escuadrón ruso c1848 por pintor ruso Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 – 1900); un pintor romántico considerado uno de los más grandes maestros del arte marino.
El Brig Mercury era un buque de guerra de dos mástiles y 18 cañones de la Armada Imperial Rusa.; famoso por su batalla con dos barcos turcos en mayo 14, 1829.
El Mercury fue perseguido por una flota turca de 6 barcos de línea, 2 fragatas y 2 corbetas; y se enfrentó a los barcos de línea Selimiye de 110 cañones y Real-bei de 74 cañones cerca del Estrecho del Bósforo., También conocido como el Estrecho de Estambul..
Después de infligir daños a cada uno de estos barcos, el Mercury pudo escapar de sus perseguidores y encontrarse con la escuadra rusa..
Esta pintura muestra al Brig Mercury en un mar abierto y tranquilo con sus velas hechas jirones en su camino para encontrarse con el escuadrón ruso., que se puede ver a lo lejos bajo un cielo lleno de nubes blancas iluminadas por la luna llena.
Esta es una reproducción de viejos maestros de arte digital retocada de una imagen de dominio público.
Información a continuación derivada de Wikipedia.org
Iván (bautizado Hovhannes Aivazian) is considered to be one of the worlds greatest masters of marine art, and was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea to Armenian Merchant Gevorg and his wife Ripsime Aivazian in 1817.
He had three sisters and an older brother Gabriel who was an Armenian Apostolic Archbishop and historian. Ivan received is early education at the Feodosia’s St. Sargis Armenian Church and was taught drawing by a local architect named Jacob Koch.
En 1833 Ivan moved to Saint Petersburg the Russian capital to study at the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts under the instruction of Russian landscape painter Maxim Vorobiev (1787 – 1855).
During his studies at the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts he was known as Ivan Gaivazovsky, then later in Italy from 1840 forward he became known as Aivazovsky.
En 1835 he was awarded a silver medal and appointed to the position of assistant to the French painter and lithographer Philippe Tanneur (1795 – 1878).
En 1837 he joined the battle-painting class of Baltic German Painter Alexander Sauerweid (1783 – 1844) and participated in Baltic Fleet exercises in the Gulf of Finland.
That same year he graduated two years earlier than expected with a gold medal and returned to Feodosia in 1838 and spent two years in his native Crimea, during which time in 1839 he took part in military exercises in the shores of Crimea where he met Russian Admirals Mikhail Lazarev (1788 – 1851), Pavel Nakhimov (1802 – 1855) and Vladimir Kornilov (1806 – 1854).
Entonces en 1840 Ivan was sent by the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts to study in Europe; where he first traveled to Venice, Italy by way of Berlin, Germany and visited San Lazzaro degli Armeni, a small island in the Venetian Lagoon where an important Armenian Catholic congregation was located and his brother Gabriel lived at the time.
After studying Armenian manuscripts and becoming familiar with Armenian art, he then journeyed to Florence, Amalfi, Sorrento; y de 1840 a 1842 remained in Naples and Rome, where he was heavily influenced by Italian Art.
During this time he had a number of successful exhibitions in Italy, with the news reaching Russia; and Pope Gregory XVI awarded him a golden medal. He then traveled to Switzerland, Alemania, the Netherlands and Britain; and in France, received a gold medal from the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture.