Moscow school

Important developments in the Moscow school can be seen through the works of four masters of icon painting:

• Theophanes the Greek,
• Andrei Rublev,
• Dionisii (Dionysius),
• Simon Ushakov.

The Moscow school of icon painting can be characterized by several common features:

- increased complexity in compositions and theological symbolism

- more tender representations of Christ and the saints

- considerable elongation of figures

- warm, saturated colors, including the introduction of pastels

- increasing degree of miniaturization.