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TheStroganov school (Russian:Строгановская школа) is a conventional name for the last major Russianicon-painting school, which thrived under the patronage of the fabulously richStroganov family of merchants in the late 16th and 17th centuries.
The Stroganov school owes its name to frequent mentioning of theStroganovs on the markings on the back of the icons ofYemelyan Moskvitin,Stefan Pakhirya,Prokopy Chirin,Istoma,Nazariy, andNikifor Saviny. Most of these icon painters, however, did not belong to the Stroganov school. They were icon painters fromMoscow and executed commissions by thetsar. Many of their works were eventually acquired by the Stroganovs, who had been known as connoisseurs of sophisticated craftsmanship.
The works of art of the Stroganov school have quite a few features in common, such as small size, exquisite diminutiveness, refinedpalette (mostly achieved with half-tints, golden, and silver colours), the density of paint layers, graphic precision of details, the fragile and somewhat pretentious delicacy of characters' postures and gestures, the richness of their vestments, and complicated fantasy of landscape background.