Stroganov school

School of icon painting named for its original patrons, the Stroganov family, that flourished in Russia in the late 16th and 17th century. The artists perfected their work in the service of the tsar in Moscow. The paintings, designed for private use, were produced in a muted colour range dominated by golden browns with gold and silver linear highlights. Small and exquisitely detailed and embellished with frames and halos of beaten gold and silver, they represent the last vital stage of Russian medieval painting before the westernization of Russian art at the end of the 17th century.

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