Feofan Grek
Biography
Theophanes the Greek (ca. 1340-ca. 1410) is one
of Russian greatest icon painters or iconographer.He is the teacher
of great Andrei Rublev.
Cathedral of the AnnunciationFeofan was born in
Byzantine Empire and worked in Constantinople. In 1370 he moves
to Novgorod. In 1395 he workes in Moscow. He frescos the walls of
many churches include:
the church of 'Transfiguration of Christ on Il'in
Street in Novgorod (1378),
the church of Nativity of Mary (1395) of the Moscow Kremlin together
with Semen Chernij)
Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin(1399)
the Cathedral of the Dormition of the Moscow Kremlin in company
with Andrei Rublev and Prokhor of Gorodets (1405)
the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Moscow Kremlin in company
with Andrei Rublev and Prokhor of Gorodets (1405).
He is the author of famous icons:
Our Lady of the Don (1380?)
Transfiguration (1408)
His style is unsurpassed in expression achieved by almost mono-colored
painting.
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