The Last Judgement by Nehmatallah Hovsep (1703).

The Aleppo School was a school of icon-painting, founded by the priest Yusuf al-Musawwir (also known as Joseph the Painter) and active in Aleppo, which was then a part of the Ottoman Empire, between at least 1645[1] and 1777.[2] As explained by William Lyster,

[al-Musawwir's] atelier drew upon the icon tradition of Crete, which before its conquest by the Ottomans in 1699 was the "hub of a great intermingling of Western and Eastern Christian representations."[1]

The Last Judgement, painted by Nehmatallah Hovsep in 1703, is one of the most famous icons of the Aleppo School.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Lyster 2008, p. 267.
  2. ^ Immerzeel 2005, p. 157.
  3. ^ Cathedral of the Forty Martyrs: fresco of the Last Judgement Archived 2022-01-28 at the Wayback Machine (Rensselaer Digital Collections).

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