Zahari came from a family of icon painters, artists who made religious panels and murals. Several painters worked at Rila, including his brother Dimitar. Their shared work means that an individual figure in an arbitrary photograph cannot automatically be attributed to Zahari without studying that scene. Worked on church painting in the nineteenth century. Helped decorate Rila’s main church. Was associated with the Samokov painting tradition. He helps reveal the monastery as a place of artistic work as well as architecture.
History of Bulgaria
