Tag: aivazovsky

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• The Painter Who Made the Bosphorus Famous: Aivazovsky's Tophane, 1884

  Published: 22 May, 2026

  • 9 min read

  Ivan Aivazovsky painted Constantinople nearly forty times. The 1884 view of the Tophane mosque is the one that explains why he kept going back.