Spanish Painter , Seville circa 1644-circa1700   Related Paintings of Francisco Antolinez y Sarabia :. | Niobe and her children killed by Apollo et Artemis | Portrait of Martha Howard Frick | Return of Christ to Jerusalem | Two Shells | Boulevard des Capucines |
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Nash, Joseph
English, 1809-1878
Francois Lemoine
1688-1737
Simon Ushakov
1626 - 1686) was a leading Russian graphic artist of the late 17th-century. Together with Fyodor Zubov and Fyodor Rozhnov, he is associated with the comprehensive reform of the Russian Orthodox Church undertaken by Patriarch Nikon. We know almost nothing about the early years of Simon Ushakov. His birth date is deduced from his inscription on one of the icons: In the year 7166 painted this icon Simon Ushakov son, being 32 years of age. At 22 he became a paid artist of the Silver Chamber, affiliated with the Armory Prikaz. The bright, fresh colours and exquisite, curving lines of his proto-baroque icons caught the eye of Patriarch Nikon, who introduced Simon to the tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. He became a great favourite with the royal family and was eventually (1664) assigned to the Kremlin Armoury, run by an educated boyar Bogdan Khitrovo.