A lavra founded by St. Sergius in Sergiyev Posad contains a set of these artworks arranged in a namesake “stasis” with five tiers. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these artworks exemplified by Daniel Chorny and Andrei Rublev’s frescoes for the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir. These religious images were common in Eastern Orthodox churches.
ANSWER: icons [or eikons; or ikona; accept iconostasis; prompt on religious artworks]
[10h] The only icon confirmed to be entirely Rublev’s work is one depicting this subject, which is represented by angels seated at a table with a cup containing a calf’s head.
ANSWER: Holy Trinity [or Troitsa; accept The Hospitality of Abraham]
[10m] This other artist created icons such as the Dormition of the Virgin before moving to Italy. Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon may have drawn from this artist’s painting of naked souls beside a blue-clad John of Patmos.
ANSWER: El Greco [or Doménikos Theotokópoulos] (The painting in the second line is El Greco’s Opening of the Fifth Seal.)
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