Contemporary Icons (XIVth Century)

Novgorod
Constantinople
Mount Athos
Theophanes the Greek, Moscow.


Byzantine art


Contemporary art


Wall paintings of Agios Dimitrios, Agios Nikolaos Orphanos, Agioi Apostoloi, Profitis Ilias and Agia Ekaterini, Thessaloniki.

Mosaics and frescoes, Church of Christ in Chora, Constantinople

Mosaics of Agioi Apostoloi, Thessaloniki.

Wall paintings of Decani, Studenica and Gratsanitsa (Yougoslavia).

Wall paintings of Panselinos, Mount Athos

Wall paintings of Mistra (Peribleptos, church of the Pantanassa and Aphentico) andVeria, Greece.

Mosaics of Pammakaristos (Fetiye Djami) Constantinople.

Wall paintings of Pec, St Nikita (Cucer), Zica, Yougoslavia.

Mosaic diptych, Opera del Duomo, Firenze.

1363 - 1389 Building of the Kremlin by Prince Donskoï

Russia : Wall paintings of the Church of the Transfiguration and Saint Theodore Stratilate(Novgorod), the Church of the Dormition (Volotovo) and the church of the Nativity (Kovalevo).


1304 - 1306 Wall paintings of Giotto, Scrovegni, Padova.

1305 - 1391 Mosque of Alhambra, Granada.

1308 - 1311 Maesta of Duccio.

1318 - 1323 Wall paintings of Santa Croce, Firenze.

Dante (1255 - 1321) put an end to the Divina Comedia

1328 - Giotto paints in Napoli, Simone Marini in Sienna.

1334 - 1344 Pope's Palace, Avignon.

1337 - Wall paintings of Lorenzetti, Sienna.

1340 - The Last Supper by Vitale da Bologna.

1344 - Simone Martini à Avignon.


Mosquée rouge à Fes.

Paolo Veneziano : Couronnement de la Vierge.

1362 - Fresques d'Orcagna à Santa Croce, Florence (Jugement dernier).

Début de l'art flamboyant : la cathédrale d'Amiens.

Duke of Berry Book of Hours.


Political context

Life of the Church


1311 - Catalans devastate Greece. Apogee of the Serb Empire under Miloutine. Civil war in Byzantium.

1328 - Reign of Andronicus III.

1337 - Beginning of the Hundred Years' War.

1338 - Turks reach Bosphorus.

1341 - Death of Ivan I Kalita (Russia). Civil war between Jean V Palaeologus and Jean VI Cantacuzenus. The black death sweeps over Europe.

1356 - Turks get a foothold in Europe and establish their capital at Adrianople.

1365 - Tamerlan begins the conquest of his empire.

1370 - Sultan Mourad conquers Bulgaria, Thrace and imposes his suzerainty to John V

1380 - Battle of Koulikovo, Dimitri Douskoi defeats the Tatars.

1389 - Defeat of the Serbs at Kossovo.

1391 - Tamerlan defeats the Tatars.

1392 - Turk conquest of Serbia.

1396 - Bajezid I defeats the crusaders at Nicopolis.

1397 - Turks besiege Constantinople.

1399 - Manuel II comes to Western Europe to seek help.



1307- 1377 Papal exile to Avignon.







1332 - Religious fights in Constantinople: the Hesychast quarrel (Barlaam - St. Gregory Palamas)




1341 - 1352 The three Palamit Councils.












1378 - Great Papal Schism: coexistence of two popes, one in Avignon (recognized by France, Spain, Portugal and Scotland) and the other in Rome (supported by England, Germany and Italy.









Spiritual life

Artistical life


St Angela of Foligno died in 1309

St Gregory the Sinaite died in 1346

Meiter Eckhart died in 1327

John Ruysbroeck died in 1381

St Gregory Palamas died in 1359

St Sergius of Radonej died in 1392

Henri Suzo 1300 - 1365

John Tauler 13001361

St Catherine of Sienna 1348 - 1380




Cimabue died in 1303

Duccio di Boninsegna died in 1319

Dante Alighieri died in 1321

Giotto di Bondone died in 1337

Theophanes the Greek was born in 1340

Andrei Rublev was born in 1360

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