Andrei Rublev: "Michelangelo" from Russia

Andrei Rublev (The Criterion Collection) Spine #34)Art fresco, or painting on the ceiling of the church or building, usually known as cultural products western europe. In fact, before the maestro Michelangelo to paint the roof of the Church of St. Peter's in Rome, fresco art first flourished in Eastern Europe. Precisely in imperial Russia.
Andrei Rublev is the maestro of the Russian-style fresco (1360-1430) who paints a variety of icons saint in the Russian Orthodox Church who became a pioneer of art that often are associated with the western europe.
Fresco style of painting flourished in Russia before renaissance. Andrei Rublev, the Russian pioneer fresco, work before Michelangelo (1475-1564). They live in medieval times (Medieval Age) before the Renaissance arrived. Michelangelo is known for his masterpieces of the last Judgement painted on the Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Andrei Rublev is remembered for his work titled "triad" (1410), which is now in the gallery tretyakov disimpang in the city of Moscow.
Art icon is an important part of the Russian Orthodox church that began to develop since the year 988 AD. Slavic community, which became the forerunner of Russia, Ukraine, White Russia (Belorussia), and Scandinavian, build a diverse church with reference to the Haga Sophia in Konstatinopel (now the Blue Mosque in Istanbul)

One of the beautiful building that was built is the cathedral of Santa Sophia in Kiev (1037). Similar buildings built in Novgorod (1045).
The experts icon and fresco painting had emerged. However, nothing can beat Andrei Rublev whose work became known in 1405 when decorating the cathedral annunciation (Meeting the Angel Gabriel to Santa Maria). Rublev works refers to Theophanes, the Greek maestro and a Russian from Gorodets Prokhor.
After that, Andre Rublev begin to work themselves and gained wide recognition in the Russian empire. Work Rublev has a specific, ie, high aesthetics and style of painting combines the Byzantine era of peace and calm.
Russian icon painter and fresco others referring to Rublev is dionisy in Stoglavi Sobor (1551). Given his services, in 1988, the Russian Orthodox Church makes Andrei Rublev as a Saint.


"Fresco" mosque
The development of the art of painting and decorating the roof of the building is also growing in Central Asia that had become part of the Soviet Union such as Uzbekistan. The area has a population of religious believers of Islam.
Olga portnyagina, which has a diverse family of Orthodox Christianity to the Muslim Caucasus, say, art adorn the ceiling of the building, developed in the Russian Muslim community at that time. Mosques in Bukhara has a painting and decorating a beautiful ceiling. Bukhara in Uzbekistan was the birthplace of Imam Bukhari.
Bukhari Hadith Bukhari, who compiled the famous one of the important references in the Islamic world, living in one of the golden era of Islamic civilization.
At the time of the Ottoman Empire rule, painting in Central Asia bordering Russia developed under the maestro who called ustaz Behzad.
Behzad be a painter Ottoman empire is the reference of the artists of his day, but most major work Behzad destroyed during the Taliban regime controlled Afghanistan.