PARIS: The Louvre Museum in Paris will exhibit five rare icons evacuated from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to protect them from the war. The icons, on display from Wednesday (Jun 14), are from a group of 16 extremely fragile works from Kyiv's Bohdan and Varvara Khanenko National Museum of Arts that were secr
PARIS: The Louvre Museum in Paris will exhibit five rare icons evacuated from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv to protect them from the war.
Four of the icons - encaustic paintings on wood from Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt's Sinai desert - date from the 6th and early 7th centuries. " are stealing our artefacts, they ruined our cultural heritage sites and this shows how big and huge Ukrainian culture is, which is part of world heritage," he added.the recent destruction of the Kakhovka damHe said that hundreds of thousands of works of art have been sheltered since the beginning of the war.
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