ABSTRACT
In this paper I shall be commenting on some portrayals of the Virgin which seem to me representative of particular aspects of the art and culture of Lusignan Cyprus.
The first group of these is to be found in the mural decoration of the narthex of the church of Panagia Phorbiotissa in Asinou,1 which was founded in 1105-1106. The narthex2 was added slightly later and was decorated in the last decades of the twelfth and in the late thirteenth century. In 1332-1333 a new layer of painting was added, although certain dedicatory murals from the earlier layers were left uncovered.
