Тайният код на българските зографи
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The church frescoes created by generations of talented Bulgarian painters hold secrets which no one has been able to decipher. The painters not only used a secret language (which, among other things, had alchemical names for pigments and substances), but also encoded a system of symbols into the images they depicted, whose meaning is almost entirely lost to us. Who was the mysterious woman at the center of the Wheel of Life? Why do saints have wings in Bulgarian icons? Why is the source of the Jordan River anthropomorphic? This book doesn't reveal all the secrets, but it does shed light on them, helping us to see the legacy of Bulgarian icon painters in a new way.
