Michael Astrapas ve Atölyesi
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Michael Astrapas and his workshop worked on monuments in Macedonia and Serbia in
the fourteenth century. Byzantine painters, who remained primarily anonymous, started
to show themselves by leaving their signatures on monuments due to the period's
changing political, economic, social and cultural conditions. Signatures, inscriptions and
written sources preserved in churches provide information about the identity, profile,
education and organization of workshops of many painters. Michael Astrapas and his
workshop painted frescoes for several churches for nearly twenty-five years. Based on
the monuments mentioned above, the approaches of the painters in terms of
iconography and style are discussed within the general framework of Late Byzantine
culture and painting.
