Theophanes the Greek

Theophanes the Greek (Feofan Grek in Russian, about 1330 or 1340 to about 1410) was a Byzantine Greek artist who worked mainly in Russia. He strongly influenced the style of painting in Novgorod and Moscow in the fifteenth century. He is also remembered as the teacher and mentor of Andrei Rublev, the greatest Russian icon painter of his time. Later accounts describe him as an icon and fresco painter who moved to Novgorod around 1370, where his best known surviving work, the frescoes in the Church of the Transfiguration, is dated to 1378, and who later worked on churches in the Moscow Kremlin, including the Cathedral of the Annunciation in 1405 with Rublev and Prokhor of Gorodets.