EVERYDAY LIFE   "Children learning the alphabet" - a scene of timeless innocence, taken from the naration of St. Nicholas' life as told on the walls of King Milutin's foundation Bogorodica Ljeviska in Prizren (Kosovo). Covered for half a millenium under the Ottoman's defacing mortar, its wall paintings came back to life following conservation works in 1953. Along with the rich human stories emerging from Biblical content, they also revealed an Arabic inscription, possibly from the hired vandal: "How beautiful these paintings are!"