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{{Short description|Major Russian icon-painting school}}
{{For|the modern art school in Moscow|Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry}}
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[[Image:John the Baptist by Prokopiy Chirin (1620s, GTG).jpg|thumb|250px|The Stroganov icons are characterized by unusually fine, meticulous brushwork and mild, sandy colours. Icon ''Desert Angel John the Forerunner'' (Иоанн Предтеча ангел пустыни) by Prokopy Chirin as displayed at the [[Tretyakov Gallery]].]]

The '''Stroganov school''' ({{langx|ru|Строгановская школа}}) is a conventional name for the last major Russian [[icon]]-painting school, which thrived under the patronage of the fabulously rich [[Stroganov family]] of merchants in the late 16th and 17th centuries.

The Stroganov school owes its name to frequent mentioning of the [[Stroganovs]] on the markings on the back of the icons of [[Yemelyan Moskvitin]], [[Stefan Pakhirya]], [[Prokopy Chirin]], [[Istoma Savin|Istoma]], [[Nazariy Savin|Nazariy]], and [[Nikifor Savin]]y. Most of these icon painters, however, did not belong to the Stroganov school. They were icon painters from [[Moscow]] and executed commissions by the [[tsar]]. 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, refined [[Palette (painting)|palette]] (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.

==References==
*[[Igor Grabar]] ''History of Russian Art'', available online at [http://nesusvet.narod.ru/ico/books/grabar/grabar_6_1_10.htm]

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[[Category:Eastern Orthodox icons]]
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