School of late medieval Russian icon and mural painting.
It succeeded the Novgorod school as the dominant school of painting when Moscow rose to a leading position in the movement to expel the Mongols. The school flowered first under the influence of the painter Theophanes the Greek (с 1330/40–1405), who moved to Moscow from Novgorod с 1400 and introduced complexity of composition, subtle colour, and almost impressionistic rendering of figures. His most distinguished successor was Eastern Orthodoxy , and the new prestige of the Russian Orthodox church led to a new didactic iconography that expounded mysteries, rites, and dogma. By the 17th century the Stroganov school of Moscow artists assumed the leadership of Russian art.
"The Savior," icon painted on panel by Andrei Rublev, Moscow school, 1411; in the State ...
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