Theophanes the Greek (c. 1330-1405)

Byzantine painter. Active in Russia, he influenced painting in Novgorod, where his frescoes in the church of Our Saviour of the Transfiguration are dated to 1378. He also worked in Moscow with Andrei Rublev. Another Theophanes of later date (16th century) was a leading artist of the Byzantine school of Crete which had flourished in its monasteries from the beginning of the 14th century.