OUSPENSKY, LEONIDE

OUSPENSKY, LEONIDE, iconographer, teacher (1902–12 December 1987). The author of The Meaning of Icons (with Vladimir Lossky [q.v.]; trans. 1982) and Theology of the Icon (2 vols., trans. 1992), he has done much in the 20th c. to help restore the traditional canon (i.e., composition, style, materials, etc.) of Orthodox iconography (q.v.) in the West for those engaged in painting icons. -P-