Onufri
Sign in to savethumb|180px|A statue of Onufri in Berat, Albania Onufri (; ; ), Onouphrios of Neokastro or Onouphrios Argytes, was a 16th century Archpriest of Elbasan and the most important painter of Orthodox murals and icons in the early post-Byzantine era in Albania. He founded a school of painting in Berat and extended his influence as far afield as Kastoria. Trained in Venice, he infused Albanian icon painting with the artistic climate of the Italian Renaissance. His works reveal a great degree of originality and ecclesiastically combined post-Byzantine and Gothic elements. Onufri's works played a decis
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Greece
- Place of birth
- Berat
- Occupation
- iconographer
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Genre
- icon painting
- Movement
- Cretan school
- Image
- Onufri statue Berat Albania 1995 small.jpg
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- Commons category
- Onufri Argitis
- floruit
- 1600-00-00
- Commons Creator page
- Onufri
- date of birth
- 1550-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Onufri Iconographic Museum
- different from
- Orest Berezovskyi
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thumb|180px|A statue of Onufri in Berat, Albania Onufri (; ; ), Onouphrios of Neokastro or Onouphrios Argytes, was a 16th century Archpriest of Elbasan and the most important painter of Orthodox murals and icons in the early post-Byzantine era in Albania. He founded a school of painting in Berat and extended his influence as far afield as Kastoria. Trained in Venice, he infused Albanian icon painting with the artistic climate of the Italian Renaissance. His works reveal a great degree of originality and ecclesiastically combined post-Byzantine and Gothic elements. Onufri's works played a decisive role in the following trends of Albanian art, up to the 19th century.
The Onufri Iconographic Museum, an Albanian national museum in Berat, is named after the painter.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Onufri” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.