• DOI:10.1017/S0032247414000047
Corpus ID: 131719003

Aivazovsky's Icebergs: an Antarctic mystery

@article{Bulkeley2014AivazovskysIA,
  title={Aivazovsky's Icebergs: an Antarctic mystery},
  author={Rip Bulkeley},
  journal={Polar Record},
  year={2014},
  volume={51},
  pages={212 - 215}
}

• Rip Bulkeley
• Published 2014
• Geology
• Polar Record

ABSTRACT The Armenian-Russian artist Ivan Aivazovsky completed a painting of a polar seascape entitled Ledyanyye gory [Ice mountains] in 1870. The picture has usually been taken for an Antarctic scene depicting HIMS Mirnyi, one of the two ships of the Russian Antarctic Expedition of 1819–1821, in the presence of icebergs, ice cliffs and floes. The author contends, first, that this identification is open to considerable doubt, and second, that other aspects of the painting are also problematic… Expand