Editing Antiphonitis (section)

==Paintings==
The Church of Christ Antiphonitis is notable for the array of [[fresco]]es on the walls and on the pillars. The oldest paintings belong to the end of the twelfth century and are thought to be a local interpretation of the style of the late [[Comnenian]] period as it appears at Panagia tou Arakou at [[Lagoudera]].<ref>Stylianou, A., and J. Stylianou, ''The Painted Churches of Cyprus'' (Cyprus: Research Centre, Greek Communal Chamber, 1964): 155.</ref>

When first studied, the Virgin Mary and prelates in the apse were damaged, but the saints in the sanctuary were well preserved. Early painting also include decons, martyrs and stylites. There was a Baptism on the south-west pillar of the nave.<ref>Stylianou, A., and J. Stylianou, ''The Painted Churches of Cyprus'' (Cyprus: Research Centre, Greek Communal Chamber, 1964): 156.</ref> 
[[File:Church of Christ Antiphonitis, saint in the arch of the sanctuary.jpg|thumb|left|Church of Christ Antiphonitis, St. [[Endoxus]] in one the arches under the dome, twelfth century, as photographed in 2010.]]

The remaining paintings are later in date and belong to the 1400s. They are executed in a post-Byzantine local revival style.<ref>Stylianou, A., and J. Stylianou, ''The Painted Churches of Cyprus'' (Cyprus: Research Centre, Greek Communal Chamber, 1964): 157.</ref> On the south wall was a [[Tree of Jesse]], and on the north an elaborate [[Last Judgement]] or Μέλλουσα Κρίση. In the dome is [[Christ Pantocrator]] surround by angels. A. and J. Stylianou report that the paintings of the dome were already "badly damaged" at the time of their studies in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>Stylianou, A., and J. Stylianou, ''The Painted Churches of Cyprus: Treasures of Byzantine Art'' (London: Trigraph for the A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1985): 481.</ref>

The paintings in the narthex are faded due to sunlight, but include a notably large depiction of [[St. George]].

Some time after 1975, some of the fresco paintings were stolen and sold on the international art market. The Last Judgement has been badly damaged, and the heads of the twelfth-century angels in the apse damaged and partly removed. The Tree of Jesse has also been removed.<ref>For black-and-white photographs, see Stylianou, A., and J. Stylianou, ''The Painted Churches of Cyprus: Treasures of Byzantine Art'' (London: Trigraph for the A.G. Leventis Foundation, 1985): 480-82.</ref>