(circa 1570–1630) — an outstanding Ukrainian painter of the 17th century, one of the representatives of the Lviv icon painting school. He worked mainly in the technique of tempera painting, his work is characterized by a synthesis of traditional Ukrainian icon painting and current trends in Renaissance art. The artist’s innovation was the use of oil paints in body parts.

He studied under Lavrenty Pylypovych. He headed the Lviv painting workshop. One of the authors of the iconostasis of the Church of St. Paraskeva in Lviv, the author of the iconostasis of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Lviv (1630), which after a fire in 1637-38 was restored by his student M. Petrakhnovych-Morohovsky. Later, the iconostasis was moved to the church in Velyky Hrybovychy, where its parts were found and restored already in the 20th century.

The features of Senkovych’s style are a bright color scheme, subtle graphic design and expressiveness of the faces of the saints, as well as the use of elements of European decorative painting.

M. Skop