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  1. Russian school of icon and mural painters,
  2. active from the late 14th to the 16th century
  3. in Novgorod. They were inspired by the work
  4. of the refugee Byzantine artist Theophanes
  5. the Greek. Russian artists imitated his
  6. linear style, but this became increasingly
  7. stilted and mannered.
  8.