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Petrakhnovych-Morochovsky Mykola
(c. 1600-after 1666) Ukrainian icon painter. Lived in Lviv. He was a student and worked in the workshop of the painter Fedor Senkovych. After the painter’s death, he became his heir. In 1666, he was elected foreman, the “senior” of the Lviv painting workshop. He is known primarily for the renovation of the iconostasis of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary church, damaged by fire, by F. Senkovych. He also created icons for the side walls of the church. In 1767, these works were transported to the Bezsribnyky Cosmas and Damian church in the village of Velyky Hrybovychi. In addition, he is the author of the icon “The Virgin Mary of Vilna” of 1635, which was located above the entrance to the Assumption church, and is now stored in the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts. Petrakhnovych-Morochovsky was one of the masters of the iconostasis of the Assumption church. Saint Paraskeva in Lviv, created before 1648.
M. Skop