Simon Ushakov

Simon Ushakov (born 1626, Moscow, Russia—died June 25, 1686, Moscow) was an iconographer, portrait painter, builder of monuments, designer, cartographer, book illustrator, theoretician, and teacher who was the most distinguished Russian artist of the 17th century. He was for many years the head of the Imperial Icon Painting Workshop in the Kremlin Armory. Ushakov lived during an era of great changes, and, like the masters of the Renaissance, he worked in a wide range of...