Price: On the left bank of the Struma River in the eastern neighborhood of the village Vukovo , is late medieval Bulgarian church "St. Petka " . In 1968 it was declared an architectural monument , and in 1969 - and artistic monument of national importance . Church named after Saint Petka Paraskeva Epivatska or Bulgarian , who lived in X-XI centuries. Currently doesn`t work.
Extremely valuable in the church "St. Petka "is a painting that you can see today. With a wide ideological program with masterful execution of the murals in his adherence to a number of achievements of Italian Renaissance art , painting in "St. Petka" is one of the best monuments of the era . Financed by the wealthy people of the village in 1598 was made the mural decoration of the church. draw this information from the donor's inscription on the west wall of the nave . Decorative murals system is made up of traditional medallions with images of Christ in the vault , friezes medallions with images of prophets and saints , scenes and makes figures of saints under the arcade . Among the images of saints, martyrs are one of the earliest images yet of St. Sava Serbian ( Background considerably later his images of the Renaissance ) , images of St. Sylvester , Pope of Rome , and St. Boniface , popular for zapadnohristiyanskoto art . B decoration of the church , a number of details related to the influence of Italian art - mustache of some beardless soldiers faces in profile in the betrayal of Judas , flag on the spear of Longinus, the centurion of the crucifixion , the rider in the back of the Cross travel and more.
Himself Orthodox Church " St. Petka "is a one-nave church without a narthex , with pilasters , forming a shallow arch on the west facade , with dimensions of 8.10 x 4.34 m is a semi-cylindrical vault . Exit west facade and issued anti apse on the east wall dynamic architecture volume. The semicircular apse is pierced by a small , narrow window. The city is of stones cemented with plaster . The entire interior was painted , and western exterior. The frescoes in the church quite well preserved and complete feature richly culture and are valuable evidence for the development of late medieval religious painting in Bulgaria and the Balkans. The church was built in the XVI century.
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