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Old Bulgarian Art (11th—13th centuries)

Old Bulgarian Art (11th—13th centuries)

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Product Code:
1705-01
ISBN
978-619-152-804-2
SKU
18.0178
Year
10-03-2016
Pages
208
Size
165/235 мм
Weight
0.45 kg
Cover Type
Hardcover
Genre
Architecture & Design, Science of Art, Fine Arts, Christianity, Culturology, Middle Ages, Old Bulgarian Sources

Nikola Mavrodinov

Nikola Mavrodinov

Nikola Petrov Mavrodinov is a Bulgarian art critic and archeologist, one of the best connoisseurs of Bulgarian medieval art, architecture and culture. Born on 2 November 1904 in Tutrakan. He graduated from the History of Art and Archeology in Liege, Belgium (1928). Assistant in the National Museum in Sofia (1931-1934). Curator in the same museum (1934-1944). Director of the Archaeological Museum a…

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This work is the second part of the book Old Bulgarian Art: The Art of the First Bulgarian Kingdom ".

Architecture, painting (frescoes and icon painting), goldsmithing and sculpture at the time when Bulgaria is under Byzantine rule are presented; the socio-historical conditions for the development of the Bulgarian art during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom, the architecture (urban planning and military architecture, churches and monasteries); painting (Turnovo School, Boyana Church).<

The idea of the author was that the book should cover all parts of our art until the fall of the Bulgarian people under the Ottoman rule; But Prof. Mavrodinov did not manage to finish it. His last words after the first attack of the disease were: "Zlatarski did not write the story of XIV century, Mutafchiev did not complete the XIV century and I will not finish the XIV c. also."

This work is a valuable reference book, contains numerous illustrations of examples of Old Bulgarian art, as well as the architectural plans of the churches that have been studied.

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