Education in History of Art offers training in visual arts and provides insight into modern aesthetic theories and artistic practices, with special emphasis on the study of the land-marks of Bulgarian and world culture. Students in History of Art graduate with BA and MA degree and are qualified to do art research, as well as to work as museum and gallery curators, art critics and art editors in specialized publications and cultural institutions, as experts in visual arts, managers, professional teachers of History of Art in comprehensive secondary schools, and in specialized high schools of art. As BA and MA degree holders, they are entitled of doing research on, and popularizing of, history, theory, modern development in, and art criticism of, fine and visual arts. Students in History of Art acquire professional training in a broad variety of fields in their chosen profession, complemented by knowledge and skills in a number of other related research and cultural spheres. They formally obtain their degree by publicly defending a thesis before a specialized body. In addition the students acquire second diploma for professional qualification of teacher in visual arts. The discipline itself provides opportunities for research mentorship of doctoral students in theory and history of fine arts and allows for further specialization in these fields.

Doctors in History of art are qualified to do specific research on history and theory of fine and visual arts, producing as a result research papers on specific subjects, or on mutually related subjects, which may present a contribution to broader and more general field of History of Art. Their high professional qualification allows them to head, and lead research teams, or programs of national and international importance, and to work on different aspects of the history or theory of art. They are entitled to teaching at higher schools, universities and academies of art, and to obtaining research degrees. Doctors in History of Art are also entitled to working as editors of scientific literature, and to select and evaluate works of art.

Head of Discipline 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. SVILEN STEFANOV

Full-Time Lecturers

Assoc. Prof. Dr. SVILEN STEFANOV

Assoc. Prof. Dr. NEZABRAVKA IVANOVA

Assoc. Prof. Dr. BISSERKA PENKOVA

Assoc. Prof. Dr. DR. ZARKO ZHDRAKOV

Senior Lecturer BOYKA DONEVSKA

Visiting Prof. Dr. CHAVDAR POPOV

Visiting Assoc. Prof. Dr. KRASIMIRA KOEVA

Assoc. Prof. Dr. PETER TSANEV

Senior Lecturer ROUMIANA PANKOVA

Senior Lecturer VALERI VASILEV

Assistant Prof. MARIA ANDIRKOVA

Prof. BOZHIDAR BOYADZHIEV

Prof. IVAN DIMOV

Prof. MICHAIL ENEV

Assoc. Prof. Dr. ZHIVKA BOUSHEVA

Assoc. Prof. MLADOST VULKOVA

Assoc. Prof. TSVETOSLAV HRISTOV

Assoc. Prof. JOHANN YOTOV

Assoc. Prof. CHRISTO DOBAROV

Assoc. Prof. Dr. ISKRA NIKOLOVA 

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Architect VESSELINA GRANCHAROVA

Assoc. Prof. Dr. BISERKA SERAFIMOVA 

Visiting Assoc. Prof. Dr. DIMITAR ZASHEV

Part-Time Lecturers

Prof. Dr. ELKA BAKALOVA

Prof. Dr. MILA SANTOVA

Prof. Dr. DIMITAR OVCHAROV 

Prof. Dr. BOYKA TSIGOVA

Prof. Dr. VERA DINOVA-ROUSSEVA

Prof. Dr. LUBOMIR MIKOV

S. R. A. Dr. IVANKA GERGOVA

S. R. A. Dr. SVETLINA NIKOLOVA

S. R. A. Dr. YULIA VULEVA

Assoc. Prof. Dr. NIKOLAY MLADENOV

Assoc. Prof. Dr. TEODOSSI RADKOV

Assoc. Prof. Dr. PETAR DELEV

Assoc. Prof. Dr. ROUMEN GENOV

Assoc. Prof. Dr. EVGENIA KALINOVA

Assoc. Prof. Dr. PRAVDA SPASOVA

S. R. A. GAVRIL LAZOV

Dr. IVAYLO KOSTOV

Dr. ZHANA TSENOVA

Dr. VALENTINA GANEVA

MONIKA KOSTOVA

LUBOMIL DRAGANOV

Chief Assistant Prof. Dr. GEORGI NIKOLOV

Senior Lecturer ELKA MARTINSKA

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