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In terms of architecture, the Vrana Palace combines Byzantine influences, Bulgarian National Revival traditions, Art Nouveau and French classicism. [3] The Karelian Hall is a gift from Alexander III of Russia, and all of its furniture (the table, the chairs and the dressing table) are made of Karelian birch by master woodworkers specially sent ...
Art critic S. A. Chervonnaya about tombstones: [26]: 108 .We are interested in these monuments as a special phenomenon of artistic culture that arose on the basis of the synthesis of arts: architecture, stone carvings and calligraphy. The main part of this phrase, word for word, is repeated by L. Yu. Braslavsky [29]: 59
The National Art Gallery is situated at an altitude of 556 m. [3] The National Art Gallery had been planned for many years and between 1934 and 1941, Bulgaria's first female architect Victoria Angelova's design was built to house both a renaissance and contemporary art collection. The building was finished and opened in 1942, but was completely ...
The architecture of the Bulgarian Revival is an Ottoman style architecture developed between 1770 and 1900. [ 1 ] Plovdiv's Old Town [ 2 ] is a living museum of the type of National Revival architecture that developed there (there were regional differences) in the early to mid-1800.
A large portion of the donations were made through the "13 Centuries of Bulgarian Statehood" fund, established by Lyudmila Zhivkova in the 1980s. Since May 2015, collections of the National Gallery for Foreign Art are exhibited together with the 19th and 20th century collections of the National Art Gallery. For this purpose, the building on ...
Bulgaria accepted the convention on 7 March 1974. [3] As of 2022, there are ten World Heritage Sites listed in Bulgaria. The first four sites were listed in 1979: the Boyana Church, the Madara Rider, the Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo, and the Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak. Four more sites were listed in 1983, one in 1985, and the most recent one in ...
The Largo (Bulgarian: Ларго, definite form Ларгото, Largoto) is an architectural ensemble of three Socialist Classicism buildings around Independence Square (Bulgarian: площад „Независимост“) in central Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It was designed and built in the 1950s with the intention of becoming the ...
The Boyana Church (Bulgarian: Боянска църква, romanized: Boyanska tsărkva) is a medieval Bulgarian Orthodox church situated on the outskirts of Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, in the Boyana quarter. In 1979, the building was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List.