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Stelarc (born 1946; né Stelios Arcadiou), Cyprus-born Australian performance artist; Kallinikos Stavrovouniotis (1920–2011), icon painter; Katy Stephanides (1925–2012), painter, leader within the Cypriot modernist movement
This range of art attests to the blend of both native and foreign influences of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome as they successively occupied the country. Artworks produced in ancient Cyprus incorporate almost all of the mediums of visual art worked on in ancient history including terracotta, stone, [2] metals, glass, [3] and gemstones. [4]
Subject to the layout of each church, the iconographic schema typically accords with the classic Byzantine tripartition, evident also in Byzantine mosaic decoration, the three zones comprising: (1) the dome and conch of the apse; (2) the pendentives, squinches and upper vaults; and (3) the lower, secondary vaults and walls.
The Cyprus Folk Art Museum was founded by members of the Society of Cypriot Studies in 1937 and housed in the premises of the Archbishop's Palace. With the construction of a new seat for the Archbishop of Cyprus in 1961, the Society approached the Archbishop, who graciously handed over the whole of the Old Archbishopric to the Society for its ...
The Leventis Gallery is an art gallery in Nicosia, Cyprus. Opened in 2014, it houses a collection of over 800 paintings from Cypriot, Greek and European artists. An International architectural design competition was launched by RIBA Competitions to design the art gallery with restaurant and housing for the A. G. Leventis Foundation, [1] a private foundation supporting educational, cultural and ...
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The Cyprus Museum (also known as the Cyprus Archaeological Museum) is the oldest and largest archaeological museum in Cyprus, located on Museum Street in central Nicosia. The museum is home to the most extensive collection of Cypriot antiquities in the world, and houses artifacts discovered during numerous excavations on the island.
The foundation of the College in 1969 was highly unusual. Although Stass Paraskos had visited Cyprus in 1968 with the British poet Martin Bell, and met with the first President of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios, to discuss opening an art school in Cyprus, [5] the initial impetus for starting the Cyprus College of Art came from an informal discussion in a pub in the English city of Leeds, where ...