Marking the beginning of portrait painting in European art, the portraits of Sebastocrator Kaloyan and his wife Dessislava are the oldest realistic images of monumental art in Mediaeval Europe.The wonderfull frescoes were created by a Bulgarian artist a century before the Italian Renaissance, before Giotto.
Boyana Church (13th century)
Marking the beginning of portrait painting in European art, the portraits of Sebastocrator Kaloyan and his wife Dessislava are the oldest realistic images of monumental art in Mediaeval Europe.The wonderfull frescoes were created by a Bulgarian artist a century before the Italian Renaissance, before Giotto.
