Alexander
Ivanov
The Visionary of the Sacred and the Sublime In the grand tapestry of nineteenth-century art, few figures embody the intense, almost agonizing pursuit of perfection quite like Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. Born in 1806 into a world of artistic rigor in St. Petersburg, Ivanov was destined …
A portrait built from Alexander Ivanov's own colours
Every 12 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.