Prokhor from Gorodets

Gorodets

Gorodets is a town and the administrative center of Gorodetsky District of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Volga River, northwest of Nizhny Novgorod...

(Прохор, Прохор с Городца in Russian

Russian language

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) was a medieval Russian icon-painter

Painting

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, thought to have been the teacher of Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Rublev is considered to be the greatest medieval Russian painter of Orthodox icons and frescoes.-Biography:...

.

Together with Rublev and Theophanes the Greek

Theophanes the Greek

Theophanes the Greek was a Byzantine Greek artist and one of the greatest icon painters, or iconographers, of Muscovite Russia, and was noted as the teacher and mentor of the great Andrei Rublev.-Life and work:Theophanes was born in the capital of the Byzantine Empire, Constantinople...

, Prokhor painted a number of fresco

Fresco

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s in the old Cathedral of the Annunciation

Cathedral of the Annunciation

The Cathedral of the Annunciation is a Russian Orthodox church dedicated to the Annunciation of the Theotokos. It is located on the southwest side of Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin in Russia, where it connects directly to the main building of the complex of the Grand Kremlin Palace,...

 in the Moscow Kremlin

Moscow Kremlin

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 in 1405 (the cathedral

Cathedral

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 was rebuilt in 1416). Russian historian

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s attribute a number of icon

Icon

An icon is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches...

s in the iconostasis

Iconostasis

In Eastern Christianity an iconostasis is a wall of icons and religious paintings, separating the nave from the sanctuary in a church. Iconostasis also refers to a portable icon stand that can be placed anywhere within a church...

of this cathedral to Prokhor, including "Crucifixion", "Ascension" and "Assumption", which can still be found in today's Cathedral of the Annunciation.