Red Monastery Interior

north trefoil: two rows of niches below the half dome

(scroll down for niches).

Restorers clearened a test patch of the dome painting in 2002, revealing fine early painting.
In the picture below, the test patch area is deliberately blotted out until results can be published:
2009: this will be changed: some early results will be shown here.

Subsequent conservation has yielded spectacular results. Links on the site map, give alimited sense of what has been accomplished.

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