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| Автор | i (Нерегистриран) | |
| Публикувано | 01.05.05 11:11 |
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The Boyana Church
This small church from the XIII c. has a big importance not only to us but to the European art history as well as it holds the earliest renaissance paintings in Europe (1259).
The church's location in the Sofia suburb of Boyana makes it easy to visit. There is a museum nearby and the whole area is arranged as a small park.
Many years of restoration work prevented people from admiring its unique paintings but recently the church was reopened to the public.
Of all wall paintings inside the church, the most well known are the portraits of the "ctitors" or the benefactors of the church, the local baron (called Sebastocrator) Kaloyan and his beautiful wife Dessislava.
UNESCO: "This church is one of the most complete and perfectly preserved monuments of east European medieval art."
Archangel Cabriel (First Church, northern wall)
Warrior - saint (First Church, southern wall)
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The Russenski Lom River Cave Monasteries (Ivanovo Churches)
These series of caves, transformed in monasteries in the XII c. are located on a rocky formation along the river bed of Russenski Lom. The monks who lived there had their walls and the ceilings decorated with murals in the XIV c. by some of the most skilful artists of the Tarnovo Art School during the 2nd Bulgarian Empire.
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