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A view of a mosque in Cyprus, located near the great church. The building was constructed during the Ottoman period, directly beside the Cathedral of Saint Nicholas, which was also converted into a mosque. In front of the mosque stand two prominent columns brought from the ancient city of Salamis. They evoke the region’s illustrious distant past while also recalling the more recent Venetian period, which ended with the Ottoman siege of the city. In the foreground, set among rich vegetation, an ancient sarcophagus is visible along with a group of women—Turkish women and a Greek woman with...

A scene showing part of Larnaca, viewed from the Venetian Consulate. Buildings and rich vegetation surround a small lake, likely one of the marshes for which Larnaca was known during the Ottoman period. Flags of various consulates are visible, reflecting the city’s role at the time as the seat of all foreign diplomatic missions. Around the lake, a few figures in Ottoman dress can be seen.

Titled, Ruins of the Monastery of Kazzafani on the Island of Cyprus. View of an ancient sarcophagus located in the cloister. The ancient sarcophagus—still standing in the same place today—occupies a prominent position in the scene, serving as a direct reference to the Greco‑Roman past of the region and forming a meaningful dialogue with the site’s later medieval history. The abbey, illuminated through a large window that highlights its Gothic details, evokes the period of Frankish rule. Through this window, the distant landscape reveals the peaks of the Pentadaktylos mountains. The pediment...

Inside a mill, three men are working behind the mill wheel, while four others gather around a table with drinking glasses. Two stand and two sit as they drink wine. At the center, a man shown en face points toward a glass that has fallen onto a woman positioned three‑quarters to the right; she turns her head back with a smile as he rests his left hand on her shoulder. The woman holds an infant in her left arm and steadies another small child with her right hand, the child standing before a bucket from which its contents have just been spilled.

A scene set inside the temple, before an open curtain, with a crowd of people visible in the background. At the center sits Joseph, offering the naked Christ Child to the priest’s knife. Behind him waits another father with his own infant. To the right, shown in profile, the Virgin Mary prays. To the left stands a man in profile holding a candle. In the foreground, positioned between Joseph and the viewer, the priest holds a basin as part of the ritual.

Inside a church, with a wooden bench resting against the wall beneath a painting, an elderly woman wearing a coat and a woolen hat, with a stern expression, is shown in profile facing left. She kneels in prayer, holding a prayer book. Behind her, seated on the bench in a three‑quarter view, with her head leaning on the woman’s shoulder, is a girl wrapped in a cloak, with branches placed beside her on the bench.