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The composition is well-balanced in space, almost in a geometrical arrangement, expressing with controlled movements
and facial features the deep sense of sorrow that the artist wants to convey.
Underneath there is the inscription: I WAS DECORATED THROUGH A DONATION OF THE METROPOLITAN OF SYLYBRIA MONSIGNOR LEONTIOS AND HELEN AND THROUGH THE TOIL OF LADY ARGYRAIA. I WAS DEDICATED T0 THE VENERABLE MONASTERY OF THE MOTHER OF GOD OF KYKKOS IN THE ISLAND OF CYPRUS IN THE YEAR OF THE LORD 1703. |
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From the orthodox land of Georgia there is a votive offering of King Heracleios II and his wife Daredjani. It is a
cover of the holy icon of Kykkos, a work of 1780, decorated with embroidered representations of the Root of Iessai,
the Almsgiving Virgin of Kykkos etc. At the lower end there is an embroidered bilingual votive inscription in Georgian
and Greek (picture 45).
Two large show cases at the end of Room 2 exhibit the ritual vestments of various ranks of the Orthodox clergy (deacon, priest, bishop). |
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