Gospodinov investigated old Preslav. The icon was not found as an intact panel: assembled fragments form a face and inscription. Its present state includes restoration. Finding the object and identifying which Saint Theodore it represents are separate questions; the latter remains unresolved. Investigated medieval Preslav. Worked at the monastery at Patleina. Recovered fragments allowed the icon to be reconstructed. His story draws attention to excavation and restoration behind the museum object.
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Unknown medieval painter (Preslav); photograph credited to Julian Tomanov in Atanas Boschkov, Die bulgarische Malerei (1969), p. 53 · Public domain (PD-Art, PD-old-70) · Wikimedia Commons
History of Bulgaria
