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]
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]