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| Keywords: View of constantinople by evening light.jpg Artwork Creator Ivan Aivazovsky Ivan Aivazovsky It's a cityscape The picture is important because it depicts the Bosphorus the Golden Horn and the Galata Tower in Istanbul during the Ottoman period Galata Tower is seen with its previous conical roof which was destroyed by a storm in 1875 the current conical roof of Galata Tower was built during the restoration works between 1965 and 1967 The human figures in the painting provide us with information regarding the traditions and daily life in the Ottoman Empire during the first half of the 19th century before the Tanzimat reforms for Western style clothing became widely applied among the civilian population 1846 oil canvas cm 120 189 Private collection accession number object history credit line exhibition history 39583 via http //www wikipaintings org/en/ivan-aivazovsky/view-of-constantinople-by-evening-light-1846 wikipaintings org PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT Aivazovsky Constantinople by evening light 1846 Uploaded with UploadWizard Views of Constantinople by Ivan Aivazovsky Paintings of Ivan Aivazovsky in 1840s | ||||
