Aleppo School

The Last Judgement by Nehmatallah Hovsep (1703).

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]

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b Lyster 2008, p. 267.
2. ^ Immerzeel 2005, p. 157.
3. ^ Cathedral of the Forty Martyrs: fresco of the Last Judgement Archived 2022-01-28 at the Wayback Machine (Rensselaer Digital Collections).

## Sources[edit]

* Lyster, William, ed. (2008). The Cave Church of Paul the Hermit at the Monastery of St. Paul in Egypt. Yale University Press.
* Immerzeel, Mat (2005). "The Wall Paintings in the Church of Mar Elian at Homs: A 'Restoration Project' of a Nineteenth-Century Palestinian Master". Eastern Christian Art. 2. doi:10.2143/ECA.2.0.2004557.

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