Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky
Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky 29 July 1817 – 2 May 1900 was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea . Aivazovsky is considered to be one of the greatest masters of marine art . He was honored during his life but his childhood was not easy, because his family was not rich and had not an opportunity to afford buying paints, but little Aivazzovsky found way out by drawing on white walls with coal. When Aivazovski finished painting his picture *Chaos* he presented it in Italy, and when Pope Gregory XVI saw this picture he wanted to buy it, but his priests suspected Aivazovsky in hiding in this picture images of evils, than cardinals made a consilium and chcked every part of this picture, and did not find anything. That is the way how *Chaos* appeared in Vatican. ...