Theophanes the Greek | |
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Born | c. 1340 |
Died | c. 1410 |
Nationality | Greek |
Movement | Byzantine Iconography |
Theophanes the Greek (Russian: Феофан Грек, romanized: Feofan Grek; Greek: Θεοφάνης; c. 1340 – c. 1410) was a Byzantine Greek artist and one of the greatest icon painters of Muscovite Russia, who influenced the 15th-century painting style of the Novgorod school and the subsequent Moscow school.[1] He was noted as the teacher and mentor of the great Andrei Rublev.[2]
During the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, Andrei Rublev, who studied under Theophanes the Greek, was the greatest Russian icon painter.
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