Trace the Russian icon from Byzantium’s arrival in 988 through Rublev, Dionisius, and Ushakov to the Old Believer schism of the 1650s and 1660s.
Tag: Byzantine art
Discover Andrei Rublev, Russia’s greatest icon painter: his life, teacher Theophanes the Greek, the Trinity icon, and his lasting influence on Russian art.
Explore Russian frescoes from Byzantine origins to the Yaroslavl school: techniques, key masters like Rublev and Theophanes, and where surviving cycles can be seen.
Explore how Russian painters from Vasnetsov to Petrov-Vodkin reinterpreted Orthodox icon traditions, from Neo-Byzantine revival to Soviet-era sacred imagery.