Pict. 60. Archangel Michael by Michael of Cyprus, 1782. Pict. 61. Mother of God Hodegetria, 13th century.

The Cretan painter John Kornaros who stayed for a long time at the Monastery of Kykkos (end of the 18th, beginning of the 19th century) and painted many icons is represented with the works Calling of the Apostles Andrew and Peter (pictures 62, 63), an icon with the hymn to the Virgin "Upon you joy'' (E134), the Archangel Michael (E38), the Virgin of Kykkos (E41) of 1789 and others. The works of painters Leontios Hierodeacon (Dormition of the Virgin E708) and Gregory the Hierodeacon (Christ Pantokrator E183) and Charalambos Kykkotis, Mother of God the Kykkiotissa (picture 65) of 1757. On a separate wall, through a series of icons the evolution of the iconography of the Virgin of Kykkos from the 15th to the 19th century is exhibited.

Two sides of the same room have been filled with frescoes which have been removed from the church of Saint Antony at Kellia in Larnaca which were difficult to preserve. They belong to the (12th and 13th century). Here we can distinguish the well-preserved and finely drawn Saint Demetrios (picture 67) who is depicted as a young, well-built soldier with all his armour and painted on a blue (cobalt) background (13th century). Pict. 63. The Calling of the Apostles Andrew and Peter, by John Kornaros, 1792.

Pict. 62. Detail from pict. 63.

Pict. 64. The Holy Mandelium by Michael Apostoles, 1776.

Pict. 65. Mother of God the Kykkiotissa, by Charalambos Kykkotis, 1757.

Pict. 66. Jesus Christ as Saviour of the World by Solomos Hierothytes, 1641.

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