Just Business download The temple was built in 1805. It represents a three-shipped pseudo basilica built of crumbled stones and processed quadres.
The artistic focus in the church is woodcarving. Here it has transformed into the highest form of the decorative art (in plastic) as synthesis of all beliefs, esthetic comprehensions and traditions. The iconostasis, the bishop’s throne, the pulpit and the iconostases for kissing are covered with “ajure†wood-carving. In this way, the background is eliminated, the figures stand out much more brightly with the illusion of three-dimensionality, the light passes freely and results in various effects.
The iconostasis in the St. God’s Transfiguration church in Ivailovgrad is “ajureâ€, with high artistic value and probably is the work of masters representing the art school in Debar. The Debar art school was a school of the Revival – 18th-19th Century. Many masters – constructors, landscape artists and wood-carvers – had come out of the villages located northwest of Debar – Galichnik, Lazaropole, Gari, Ossoi, Tressoncheh, Bitusheh and others. They had been influenced by the art of Aton and Italy. In the 18th Century, they created their first works. The woodcarving reached a high level of artisanship. It developed under the influence of the Aton woodcarving tradition. Some of the masters went to Italy and learned the sculptural treatment of the human figure as well.
The ornaments in the woodcarving have high relief, or “ajureâ€. The motifs are imitative or conventionally reproducing nature. The images of people and animals are tiny, but placed in the center of the general composition of branches, leaves and flowers. The artisans from the region of Debar had worked in southern and northern Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, and northern Greece. Succession and continuity of the early local tradition are present, and the creators passed their mastery from generation to generation.
The iconostasis in the St. God’s Transfiguration Church carved in wood in the middle of the 19th Century. The side, southern iconostasis with the icons of the saint-healers dates from 1849. The icons in the church were painted in the middle of the 19th Century.
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