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Patriarch Abel (Spas na Ilyine)

Abel is shown as the righteous shepherd whose offering the Lord regards, before he falls at his brother's hand (Genesis 4). A fresco from the Church of the Transfiguration on Ilyin Street, painted by the Byzantine iconographer Theophanes the Greek.

Patriarch Abel (Spas na Ilyine) by Theophanes the Greek depicting Genesis 4:1
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Depicted passages

Genesis 4:1-8Primary
Portrait of Theophanes the Greek

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.

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