BULGARIA ICONS AND THEIR WONDER – WORKING POWER

2012. By Prof. Teofana Matakieva-Lilkova, PhD and Senior Research Fellow, published in Bulgarian, English, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Italian, format 20 x 28 cm, 32 pages.

Includes 29 icons representing works of various art schools set up in Bulgaria during the National Revival period such as the Strandzha, Samokov, Tryavna and Bansko schools, along with icons dating from earlier periods. The edition is dedicated to the role and place of icons in the Orthodox church and the intimate world of man, to the miracle of contiguity with the Divine etc. It further makes a review of the religious calendar holidays and the saints they celebrate.