Стенописите в храма "Св. св. Константин и Елена" на село Кръстилци

Abstract

The article examines the frescoes in the Church of Sts. Constantine and Helen in Krastiltsi, Sandanski. The painter who executed the pictorial decoration was not known. The author of the article makes a well-founded assumption that the mural decoration in the temple is the work of Dimitar Sirleshtov, a painter from Bansko, student of another painter from Bansko – Mihalko Golev. The article describes and analyses the iconographic programme, as this is the first comprehensive publication of this ensemble. There is a special emphasis in the text on the iconography of the individual tortures of sinners and on a rarely seen scene of a morally instructive nature. The article also analyses the stylistic features that are characteristic of the painter Dimitar Sirleshtov.