Rock churches in Bulgaria

The cave paintings developed with greater splendor and practicidad in the pre-historic epoch, with themes of shooting of large buffalo and some mammoths, likewise only they were represented the animal hunting matter. This primitive art dates from approximately 40.000 years before it was of Christ and presented samples in different places around the world, especially, where had greater media and historic significance, in the Iberian Peninsula, Spain (Almería, Barcelona, Extremadura), Portugal, and France (Aurignac).



In Africa also there were many samples of this art, but with greater emphasis in the group shooting, although then would be shown evolutionary. After that first phase, two occurred more: the pastoral phase and domestication, and the garamántica, that explained on the survival in the desert.

It would be able to say that a quarter phase exists, exclusive and only artistic, although mystical motives has to spare. It was carried out in the medieval epoch and in the current one Bulgaria, in the city of Ivanovo, and in the walls líticos of several churches, disseminated by that city as greater artistic and historic patrimony of value. They are an assembly of churches carved in rock decorated with fresh rock of saints and images of Christ traditional of any temple, its particularity is its condition of rock, therefore in those times –Between the centuries XII and XIV- would be able to seem a primitive and invalid art.

Taking up again an old art to adapt it to a present, is a commendable work and of good to see, is taken like the modernist and unique, that seems to be the motivation of who, the now Bulgarian, they made possible that world heritage. Temples of stone with fresh rock, colossal art that itself has not repeated in current times by the difficulty of its execution.

Still the fresh in appreciable state are conserved, in the complex of five churches that composes the precinct, chiefly in the Chapel of the Archangel Miguel, called the Church Buried; in the Church of San Teodoro, called the Church Demolished; and that of the Holy Mother of God.

In the baptistry, place that serves for the execution of baptisms, and in the Chapel of Gospodev Dol, smaller samples are found of fresh, but that even so they compose the complex.
Since their construction was a place of great value for the monarchs of shift, inclusive in the current that favored their inclusion to the UNESCO as consideration of world heritage, in 1979. Bulgarian treasure of the medieval art.