За славянската идентичност през Възраждането („Стематография“ на Христофор Жефарович и дяконските врати в Рилския манастир)
Slavic identity at the time of the Bulgarian national revival (Hristofor Zefarović’s Stematografia and the Deacon’s Gates in Rila monastery)

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the coats of arms of ancient Slavic countries, regions and cities, as given in Hristofor Zefarovic’s Stematografia (published in Vienna 1741), which were painted on the deacon’s gates of the iconostasis in the church Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Rila monastery. These images are an example of apocryphal painting influenced by ideas of history and sacredness. The paintings are a representation of the new way of thinking manifested in the Bulgarian culture of the beginning of XIX century, which became possible with the secularization of culture.

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