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Козацьке бароко
A national variant of Baroque fusing the Byzantine icon tradition with Western European Baroque realism and ornament: monumental gilded iconostases, parsuna portraiture, and the Zhovkva and Kyivan Cave Monastery workshops.
1650–1708
Leading Ukrainian Baroque icon painter and founder of the Zhovkva school; master of luminous colour, famous for the 1697–99 Skvariava Nova iconostasis.
1667–1740
Ukrainian Baroque icon painter and monastic elder; brought heightened realism and landscape to Eastern iconography. Masterwork: the Bohorodchany (Manyava) Iconostasis (1698–1705).