Related Topics  Sofia  Icons  UNESCO Heritage		Boyana Church A JEWEL IN SOFIA'S CROWN The Boyana Church, early 11th century, is renowned for its frescoes from 1259. An unknown artist painted 240 figures in 89 scenes: The Last Supper, Descent from the Cross, the portraits of Sebastocrator Kaloyan and his wife Dessislava, of Bulgaria's King Konstantin Asen and Queen Irina: pale, distinguished and reserved or expressive and worldly, all are exquisite and mark a truly magnificent peak of mediaeval Bulgarian and Balkan painting. The Boyana Church is also known as "a jewel in Sofia's crown" thanks to the frescoes. However, experts must have rather regarded it as "a masterpiece of world art" when the church was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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