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Christos Anesti / Χριστός ἀνέστη !
Today is Holly Sunday, i. e. Easter (or Pascha in Greek) which commemorates the Resurrection of Christ following his dead at the cross. This religious feast, along with that of Christmas (Christougenna in Greek), epitomizes the Christian (1/5)
In the Byzantine order of painting the faces and flesh parts of the figures and trimmings were done last and were often painted ‘al secco’ as the plaster had dried at this point. For sake of precision, haloes and other circular forms were laid out with a sort of ‘compass’