The exhibition will showcase portable icons, post-Byzantine art woodcuts, carved stone reliefs, golden embroideries, metalworking and manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 20th century. Among objects in display, the following are expected to take center stage: the icon meant for public veneration of Our Lady Phaneromeni (proably 12th century); the icon of Our Lady Vlahernitissa (13th century) now kept in the Byzantine Museum of the Archbishop Makarios II Foundation; the icon of St George with scenes from his life (13th century); a dedicatory icon with the family of dragoman Hadjiosiph (18th century); the icon of St Paul with scenes from his life (1789), a gift of dragoman Hadjigeorgakis Kornesios; an embroidered epitaph, a gift of the Archimandrite Kyprianos (18th century); a sacred Chalice and a sacred Paten (1800); a vessel for the Prothesis, works of the renowned goldsmith Polyvios Kolokos (1926). Also exhibited will be the icon of St Phanourios that used to belong to the martyr Archbishop Kyprianos of Cyprus (1810-1821); the icon of Kyriaki Samareitis (19th century), a work of the painter Christodoulos; and the icon with the representation of the 9th Eothinon Gospel’s “Tiberian Sea”.
Date: Thursday 22nd March 2012- 30th September 2012
Venue: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia
Time: Monday - Sunday 10:00 - 19:00 (except bank holidays)
Cost: (please call 22677134)
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