Theophanes the Greek

Theophanes the Greek (also Feofan Grek of Russian Феофан Грек, probably * 1330, † 1410 ) was a Greek icon painter from Constantinople Opel. He came about 1370 to Russia, where for a late- Byzantine style of the moving composition. He was the master of the famous Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev.

In 1408 he painted together with other artists from the first stone church of the third period of construction of the Virgin of the Annunciation Cathedral in the Moscow Kremlin.

Works

Pantocrator on a fresco in the Saviour's Transfiguration church in Novgorod

Holy Trinity on a fresco in the Saviour's Transfiguration church in Novgorod

Holy mother of Don

Transfiguration of the Lord

  • Icon painter
  • Byzantine
  • Born in the 14th century
  • Died in the 15th century
  • Man
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