Andrei Rublev

icon painter

c. 1360 – 1428 · 68 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia

Russia's greatest icon painter, creator of the Trinity, who decorated cathedrals in Moscow and Vladimir.

Portrait: anonimous · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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