Alexander
Davidovich Kornoukhov

Russia • born in 1947

Biography and information

Laureate of the State prize of the Russian Federation. Corresponding member of the Academy of arts.

Successor of the traditions of Byzantine art. He should never literally in the Byzantine model, not copies of Byzantine models, but it is very close to their very essence, their spirit. Created mosaic ensembles of churches in Moscow (first of all, the Savior of the Transfiguration in Tushino), in Tbilisi, in Ukraine (the Church of the monastery), Italy (Rome, Sardinia), worked in Ravenna (Academy of mosaics).

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