Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev (c. 1360–c. 1430) was the greatest master of medieval Russian icon and fresco painting. First recorded in 1405, he joined Theophanes the Greek in painting the Cathedral of the Annunciation in the Moscow Kremlin.

In 1408 he and Daniel Chorny decorated the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir, and from 1425 to 1427 the Trinity Cathedral at the Trinity Lavra. His only fully authenticated work is the icon of the Trinity of about 1410.

At Moscow's Andronikov Monastery he painted the Saviour Cathedral and died. In 1551 a church council made his style a model for church painting; he was canonized in 1988.