Още за зографите по българските земи през Късното средновековие по повод непубликувано кръжило от НЦИАМ
More about the icon-painters in the Bulgarian lands during the late Middle Ages due to an unpublished tympanum icon from NCMHA

Summary/Abstract: In the present text for the first time is published a tympanum icon of Christ Anapeson from the National Church Museum of History and Archaeology (NCMHA), analyzing its iconographic, functional and typological features determined on the basis of comparisons with icons similar in purpose from the end of the 15th – 17th centuries. The stylistic and technological features of the painting on the tympanum icon unite it in one group with other icons from the collection of NCMHA. These are a fragment of iconostasis tier with the image of Archangel Gabriel, partially preserved iconostasis frieze with the images of St Gregory the Theologian, St Basil the Great, St George Killing the Dragon, St Demetrius Killing the Warrior, Ascension of Prophet Elijah and St Theodore Stratelates on Horseback and two ripidions from the topmost part of an iconostasis. Added to them are two des-potic icons from the Museum of Christian Art – the Crypt and a set of three despotic icons from Rakitovo and the City Art Gallery – Plovdiv. Based on the stylistic similarity with the dated icon of The Mother of God Hodegetria from Rakitovo, a new dating of the icons from the NCMHA and the Museum of Christian Art – the Crypt is proposed here. It is supposed that they have been created by a team of two painters that worked in the region of the Northern Rhodopes about 1618/9. Some aspects of the problem about the origin and professional training of these masters and their connections with the artistic production on the territory of Northern Greece from the middle of the 16th century and the beginning of the 17th century have been examined.

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