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Sanctification of an Icon Painter: Andrei Rublev (1966)

Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast

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The Importance of Perspective in Russian History

Fra Angelico is considered the highest expression of Western sacred painting. The church there declared basically that his method of painting icons was to be authoritative and to be replicated as much as possible. There's a moment in the film where Andre Rublev basically, you know, refuses to paint the last judgment. He doesn't want to terrify people, he says, in the film.

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