Belarusian icon-painting school of the 16th–18th centuries

The Belarusian icon-painting school of the 16th–18th centuries (Russian: Белорусская иконописная школа XVI—XVIII веков) is a school of icon painting that was formed under the influence of the Renaissance and based on the traditions of the Byzantine Empire and Old Russian art. The process of its formation and development lasted for several centuries. The school developed on the basis of Byzantine traditions, absorbing in the New Time the features of Western European art — the Renaissance (14th–16th centuries), Baroque (late 16th–18th centuries), Classicism (second half of the 18th century). The works of Belarusian icon painting are characterized by adherence to the canon, conventionality and symbolism of the pictorial language, characteristic type, wide use of ethnographic elements, the desire to reflect the surrounding reality.

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