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In 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky made his celebrated film, Andrei Rublev loosely based on the artist’s life, which shows him as “a world-historic figure” and “Christianity as an axiom of Russia’s historical identity” during a turbulent period in the history of Russia. Since 1959 the Andrei Rublev Museum has been open at the Andronnikov Monastery, displaying the art of his works and his epoch. The church celebrates his feast day on January 29 and July 4. He was canonized a saint in 1988 by the Russian Orthodox Church. After some time his art came to be perceived as the ideal of Church painting and of Orthodox iconography.Īndrei died at Andronikov Monastery on Janu(this date is still questionable). The characters of his paintings are always peaceful and calm.

In Rublev’s art, two traditions are combined: the highest asceticism and the classic harmony of Byzantine mannerism. Rublev removed the figures of Abraham and Sarah from the scene, and through a subtle use of composition and symbolism changed the subject to focus on the Mystery of the Trinity. It is based upon an earlier icon known as the “Hospitality of Abraham” (illustrating Genesis 18). 1410, currently in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. The only work authenticated as entirely his is the icon of the Trinity, ca. He is also believed to have painted at least one of the miniatures in the Khitrovo Gospels. After Daniil’s death Andrei came to Moscow’s Andronikov Monastery where he painted his last work, the frescoes of the Savior Cathedral. Theophanes was an important Byzantine master who moved to Russia, and is considered to have trained Rublev.Ĭhronicles tell us that in 1408 he painted (together with Daniil Cherni) the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir and in 1425–1427 the Cathedral of St. His name was the last of the list of masters as the junior both by rank and by age. The first mention of Rublev is in 1405 when he decorated icons and frescos for the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Moscow Kremlin in company with Theophanes the Greek and Prokhor of Gorodets. Sergius Lavra near Moscow under Nikon of Radonezh, who became hegumen after the death of Sergii Radonezhsky (1392).

Andrei Rublev probably lived in the Trinity-St. There is little information about his life. Andrei Rublev, born in the 1360s, died 1427 or January 29, 1430) is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes.