The Hospitality of Abraham (Old Testament)
Three angelic visitors are received at Abraham's table by the oaks of Mamre, the moment the promise of a son is renewed (Genesis 18). A fresco from the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyin Street, painted by the Byzantine iconographer Theophanes the Greek.
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About Theophanes the Greek
1340-1410 · Byzantine Greek (worked in Russia)
Theophanes the Greek was a Byzantine-trained icon painter and muralist who worked in Constantinople, Novgorod, and Moscow. Among his surviving works are the frescoes at the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyin Street (Novgorod, 1378) and icons of the Deësis tier at the Annunciation Cathedral in Moscow.