![]() ![]() The text relates how three men presented themselves at Abraham’s tent, erected near the Oak of Mamre, while he was resting during the hottest hour of the day and how Abraham offered them hospitality. The icon represents the narrative of Genesis 18, 1-16, the hospitality of Abraham. His feast is celebrated on the 14th of July. He was canonized at the occasion of the millennium of the Christianization of Russia. In 1988 Andrej Rublev was numbered among the saints. Important is that during the Stoglav Synod of 1551 the fathers proclaimed that Rublev’s way to represent the Trinity was the only valuable and should be the model for all later representations. The monk and painter Andrej Rublev died in 1430 and was buried in the Andronevsky-monastery near Moscow. He painted the feast-range and the Trinity-icon and probably more icons which are lost. Only the central icon of Christ survived, though very much damaged, together with the icons of the Archangel Michaël and Saint Paul.Īt the end of his life he was involved in the decoration of the new church of the monastery at Sergej-Posad. In 1410 he painted in the cathedral of the Mother of God in Zvenigorod. A fresco of the Last Judgment remains, together with some panels of the Deësis-range. In 1408 he painted in the Cathedral of the Dormition in Vladimir. In 1405, together with Theofan Grek and Prochor of Gorodetz he worked in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. Rublev travelled around, probably with a team of craftsmen and painters and worked in several important cathedrals. St Bernard of Clairvaux, St Francis of Assisi and others inaugurated this special tone of tenderness in the Christian mind and influenced indirectly the Christian art.) ![]() (In the West the same happened from the 12th century on. Human sentiments gained more importance and this became visible in the way traditional themes were treated. In that period a new dynamism entered the classical Byzantine style of the Macedonian school. We can suppose that he was in contact with Byzantine masters working in Russia, but also that he may have travelled to Contantinople and perhaps to Mistras seen the evidence of influence of the Palaeologian Renaissance in his work, which flourished during the last dynasty (the Palaeologians) of Byzantine emperors. We know almost nothing about his artistic and iconographic formation. The Young Andrej placed himself under his guidance and entered the monastic life. In 1392, Father Nikhon became the second abbot of the Trinity-Lavra. He is venerated as a Saint in the Orthodox Church with his feast day on 19 May (Wikipedia) His nickname, Donskoy (i.e., “of the Don”), alludes to his great victory against the Tatars in the Battle of Kulikovo (1380), which took place on the Don River. ![]() He was the first prince of Moscow to openly challenge Mongol authority in Russia. Sergius and another time in 1408.ġ Saint Dmitry Ivanovich Donskoy (Russian: Дми́трий Ива́нович Донско́й,also known as Dimitrii or Demetrius), or Dmitry of the Don, sometimes referred to simply as Dmitry (12 October 1350 in Moscow – in Moscow), son of Ivan II the Fair of Moscow (1326–1359), reigned as the Prince of Moscow from 1359 and Grand Prince of Vladimir from 1363 to his death. Nevertheless the monastery was devastated in 1393, one year after the departure of St. They were defeated in the battle of Kulikovo in 1380 by Dimitri Donskoj 1, who was able to unify the territories with Moscow as center. He grew up during the liberation war against the Tatars, central Asian tribe-people that devastated the country. He was born around 1370 in the neighborhood of Pskov, in the very North of Russia. We know very little about the life of the painter. The icon was made for the iconostasis of the new church, built in stone, which replaced the original wooden church of Sergej of Radonesj. The famous icon of Andrej Rublev, known as 'the Philoxenia (hospitality) of Abraham’, or with the more common name 'The Trinity’, belonged originally to the monastery of the Holy Trinity at Sergej Posad, founded by Sergej of Radonesj in 1310. The Icon of Andrei Rublev, rooted in Tradition. The Meditatio Centre, London, 16 december 2017 by Joris Van Ael The Icon of the Holy Trinity (Philoxenia of Abraham) by Andrej Rublev (1370-1430) ![]()
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