The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded on 16th November 1945. In its ambitious goal to build peace in the minds of men, it did not consider it enough to build classrooms in devastated countries.…
The present monastery and church of St. Andrew in the Karpass peninsula are modern, but by the sea cliffs is the original 15th century chapel. The medallion mosaic depicting St. Andrew, however, is from the Church of Panagia Kanakaria, which dates…
Here we have a 13th century two-sided icon of superb palaeologian art where one side depicts the Crucifixion and the other the Virgin Mary. The icon was displayed in the exhibition "Treasures of Cyprus" which was held in the Museum of Decorative Art…