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.

The paintings are the excellent portrayal of the events and scenes that we see around us. The painters are the best cameras of the world. They reproduce many different types of pictures. They even draw imaginary pictures that do not exist in this world. We tend to use both thinned oil paints and dense oil paints. Masterpieces can be dyed more than once, but each time it may be different from the existing paintings.h

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