Rublev, Andrei

Rublev, Andrei

 or Andrei Rublyov

(born c. 1360, Russia—died 1430) Russian painter. He was trained wholly in the stylized tradition of Byzantine art, but to the more humanistic approach it had adopted by the 14th century he added a truly Russian element, a complete unworldliness that distinguishes his work from that of his predecessors and successors. He assisted Theophanes the Greek in decorating the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Moscow. The greatest of medieval Russian icon painters, he is best known for The Old Testament Trinity (c. 1410). He became a monk fairly late in life.