Техника и технология на стенописите в църквата „Покров Богородичен“ при постницата „Св. Ев. Лука“
Technique and technology of the murals in the Church of the Protecting Veil of the Most Holy Mother of God at the Hermitage of St Luke

Summary/Abstract: The development of techniques and technologies in mural painting in the period of the Bulgarian National Revival is still an insufficiently studied matter. Alongside changes in styles, changes in the materials used for wall painting are witnessed over the period. Introduction of oils in the texture of the painting layers as a binder in their own right in the form of oils or combined oil emulsions is a most typical and significant characteristic of the painting of the period. The paintings by Toma Vishanov show even at first sight that they have not been done using the traditional tempera technique, evidence of which is provided by the high intensity of the colouring of the murals, hardly achievable with tempera technique. His murals are a rare example of the use of oil as a binder in its own right in the painting of that period. Toma Vishanov’s wall paintings mark a new stage in the development of monumental painting in the period of Bulgarian National Revival. The use of oil-based emulsions as a main binder occurs for the first time within Bulgarian lands in his wall paintings.

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