Theophanes the Greek worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Theophanes the Greek as Byzantine-Russian artist (c.1340-c.1410).
Theophanes the Greek was born at Constantinople in 1335. His recorded nationality is Greece.
Workshops rather than individuals produced most work in this period, and attribution is often a modern reconstruction.
He worked as painter, iconographer and artist.
Among his best-known works are Our Lady of the Don and Theotokos of Tolga. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Greece shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Theophanes the Greek died in 1410, aged 75. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Our Lady of the Don
- Notable work: Theotokos of Tolga
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