• First Chapter – Last Judgement

    The Last Judgment, one of the most famous icons of the Aleppine school (canvas, 400x600cm, 1703 by Nehmatallah Hovsep) This 18th century painting represents the first chapter of my childhood; – Look at all those people held by snakes. – Those are satan’s soldiers, torturing bad people, and that’s satan in the corner. – Bad people will end up there, in hell. This was a sample of our childhood conversations at the Haygazian Armenian elementary school in Aleppo, which was in the same estate as the Forty Martyrs Armenian church, which was bombed and leveled two days ago. Every Friday at 8 AM they took 5th and 6th graders to…