Painting, Museum, Monastery of St John Lambadistis, Cyprus

Harrowing of Hell, with Christ on the broken gates of hell, pulling Adam and Eve from hell, with the righteous on the left, possibly Abraham and David, scene from the Christological cycle on the epistyle of the iconostasis, late 14th century, from the Church of Panagia Theoskepasti, in the museum at the Monastery of Agios Ioannis Lambadistis, or St John Lambadistis, a Byzantine monastery built 10th - 18th century near Kalopanagiotis in the Troodos mountains of Cyprus. The monastery, named after a local saint, consists of 3 churches and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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