Fresco, Panagia tou Araka church, Lagoudera, Cyprus
Anastasis, with Christ destroying the gates of hell, with Adam and Eve and St John the Baptist, fresco, 12th century, in the Panagia tou Araka, a late 12th century Byzantine katholikon monastery church, near Lagoudera, in the Troodos mountains, Cyprus. The frescoes were commissioned by Leo Authentes and painted by a monk named Theodoros Apsevdis, completed 1192 and restored in the 14th century. The church is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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