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Theophanes the Greek

Greek artist of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire

b. 1340 CE – d. 1410 CE World The Great Crossroads

Theophanes the Greek (c. 1340 – c. 1410) is a Byzantine Greek artist and one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia, and is noted as the teacher and mentor of the great Andrei Rublev.