Greek Theophanes

The Don icon of the Mother of God was written by Theophanes the Greek. Brought by the Don Cossacks, who came to the aid of Grand Duke Dmitri Ioannovich Donskoi

An outstanding painter of the fourteenth century Theophanes the Greek was a profound psychologist, “philosopher,” as his contemporaries called him, an artist of uncontrollable temperament. His works amaze with the