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Theophanes The Greek

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c. 1330/40
Died:
1405

Theophanes The Greek (born c. 1330/40—died 1405) was one of the leading late Byzantine painters of murals, icons, and miniatures who influenced the 15th-century painting style of the Novgorod school and the Moscow school. His early career was spent in Constantinople and Crimea, but after about 1370 he worked in Russia. Although he painted hundreds of works, the only ones that can be certainly attributed to him are frescoes in the Church of the Transfiguration in Novgorod (1378).

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