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Dionisy
Russian artist
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Dionisy (born c. 1440—died c. 1508) was one of the foremost painters of the medieval principality of Muscovy, who determined the style of the last great era of old Russian art. Though he was celebrated during his lifetime as Muscovy’s leading artist, little is known about his life. Given the many contradictory accounts in medieval documents, relatively few works can be indisputably attributed to him. Between 1467 and 1477 Dionisy was a junior craftsman on the team working on the frescoes of the Sobor Rozhdestva Bogoroditsy (Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral) at the St. Paphnutius of Borovsk Monastery. After 1468, ...(100 of 406 words)