Editing Plovdiv (section)

===Arts===
[[File:Plovdiv Art Gallery P5030085.JPG|thumb|200px|right|The Art Gallery of Plovdiv]]
The city has traditions in [[iconography]] since the Middle Ages. During the Period of National Revival, a number of notable icon-painters (called in Bulgarian ''zografi'', ''зографи'') from all regions of the country worked in Plovdiv such as{{spaced ndash}} [[Dimitar Zograf]], his son Zafir Zograf, [[Zahari Zograf]], Georgi Danchov, and others.<ref name="pat"/> After the Liberation, the Bulgarian painter of [[Czechs|Czech]] origin [[Ivan Mrkvička]] came to work in the city. The Painters' Society was established there by artists from southern Bulgaria in 1912 whose members included painters [[Zlatyu Boyadzhiev]], [[Tsanko Lavrenov]] and [[Sirak Skitnik]].

Today the city has more than 40 art galleries with most of them being privately owned. The Art Gallery of Plovdiv was founded in the late 19th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://art.domino.bg/gallery.php?galID=6 |title=Art Gallery of Plovdiv |publisher=Art.domino.bg |language=bg |access-date=7 January 2011 |archive-date=6 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706142802/http://art.domino.bg/gallery.php?galID=6 |url-status=live }}</ref> It possesses 5,000 pieces of art in four buildings. Since 1981, it has had a section for [[Culture of Mexico|Mexican]] art donated by Mexican painters in honour of the 1,300-year anniversary of the Bulgarian State.