The barbaric frescoes of Agios Georgios Tou Sporou
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Another nasty method... look at all the marks on his body.
Quite a funny image: Centaur? bull/horse?
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Enough of these type of images now - here a more church-like depiction.
This is perhaps the image of one of the Apostels.
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The final picture shows a typical Cypriot old custom - children's shoes.
So, here we are.
There are still some more questions left for me. For example why can we find these type of brutal scenes in a Cypriot chapel when the Persian soldiers never came to Cyprus. Who told the locals the stories of Christians that were tortured and killed in Mesopotamia 2000 km away, to produce these barbaric frescoes?
Or was it produced from immigrants from the East when there were the struggles between Byzantium and the Arabs in the 7th century?
How come there is a different chapel, Agioi Akindinoi, several km away? That is the only church in Cyprus dedicated to these Saints, yet it doesn't have any murals like this. Instead the frescoes are in the church Agios Georgios which I found and photographed.
Anyhow it would be interesting if anybody has seen gruesome portrayals in other houses of God in Cyprus.
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Thank you Max, for that rather gruesome blog. Does anybody have any other interesting murals to report?
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