Andrei Roublev (in Russian: АндрейРублёв , marked Roubliov ) or Saint Andre Iconographe is a Moine and painter of icon S Russian of the 15th century. It was born towards 1360 - 1370 and died between 1427 and 1430. He was canonized recently and its festival is on July 4th.

He was the assistant of the painter of Greek origin Théophane the Greek and its work perpetuates the Byzantine tradition, but by introducing more flexibility, of softness. Its most known icon, still largely nowadays diffused, is the Icône of the Trinity. Taking again a traditional topic of the Byzantine iconography, the hospitality of Abraham, it was the first to make disappear the characters from Abraham and Sarah and to turn the attention on the three angels sitting with the foot of the oak of Mambré, illustration of the harmony trinitaire. The icon was intended for the Laure of the Trinity-Saint-Serge to Serguiev Possad (in the past Zagorsk ).

Its life inspired the Russian scenario writer Andreï Tarkovski which devoted a film carried out to him 1966, left in 1969: Andrei Roublev

See too

• a presentation of the icon of the Trinity
• Painter of icon Andrei Roublev
• Andrei Roublev: the hand of the Spirit on historia-nostra.com