Theophanes' frescoes in the Church of the Saviour on Ilyina Street
Theophanes' only securely dated murals: swift figures modelled by white flashes of light
- Author
- Theophanes the Greek
- Style
- Russian Icon Painting: Theophanes, Rublev, Dionisius — The Byzantine canon recast as stillness: light instead of shadow, rhythm of silhouettes instead of volume
- Century
- 14th century
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Made around the same time (±30 years)
- c. 1387–1400 The Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer · London
- c. 1360 Messe de Nostre Dame — Guillaume de Machaut · Reims
- c. 1392 Theotokos of the Don — Theophanes the Greek (attributed) · Russian Icon Painting: Theophanes, Rublev, Dionisius · Kolomna
- 1408 Rublev's frescoes in the Dormition Cathedral, Vladimir — Andrei Rublev · Russian Icon Painting: Theophanes, Rublev, Dionisius · Vladimir