Theophanes the Greek, who paints forty churches…

Theophanes the Greek, who paints forty churches in Constantinople alone (none survive), is also highly active and influential in Russia, especially through his pupil Andrei Rublev.

Theophanes paints the Church of the Transfiguration at Novgorod in 1378.

The late-fourteenth-century “Dormition of the Virgin” is (as most scholars agree) his work, and a number of icons are also attributable to him (but authorities disagree on which ones).