Byzantine Art Project

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Saint Nicholas

11th-century underlayer, overpainted 1259 (both layers visible in the surviving palimpsest)· Boyana Church (Sofia
Photograph by Ann Wuyts. Wikimedia Commons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0). The underlying frescoes (11th c. and 1259) are in the public domain.