This dissertation analyzes the early excavation, classification, and publication of Cypriot sculpture and its collection and display in European universal museums. The author argues that the events and intellectual climate of the nineteenth century profoundly and lastingly shaped the perception of the ancient Cypriot tradition, determining the island conventional place or more often, absencein contemporary scholarship within the fields of art history and archaeology. Early treatments of Cypriot religious sculpture and classifications of its style and aesthetics launched a series of debates in which its material culture was used as a tool to measure foreigh influence and interaction with both East and West a fate reinforced by the political situations then (under Ottoman and British rule) and now (with the division of the island and its capital city into Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot sectors).

Last modified

• 11/20/2019

Creator

• Catherine Victoria Olien

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-gzhm-m632

Subject

• Art History

Keyword

• Cyprus
• Museum
• Ancient
• Sculpture
• Cypriot
• Nineteenth Century

Date created

• 2018-01-01

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright