Glossary Sculpture, figurines and art

Cypro-Greek style

Also called: Archaic Cypro-Greek style

Gjerstad's name for Cypriot sculpture from about 540 BCE onwards that engages closely with Greek art while keeping local forms and materials.

In Gjerstad's sequence the Archaic Cypro-Greek style (about 540–480 BCE) follows the Proto- and Neo-Cypriote, and is succeeded by Sub-Archaic and Classical Cypro-Greek phases in the fifth and fourth centuries. The figures take up Greek hairstyles, dress and the Archaic smile, yet they stay frontal and flat-backed, made of local limestone or clay for dedication in Cypriot sanctuaries.

Modern writers read the style as a deliberate Cypriot synthesis of Greek and local forms. In the Classical period the adoption stayed selective: the athletic nude never caught on, and naturalism concentrated in the face. See how Cypriot figurines are classified.

Full entry: How Cypriot Figurines Are Classified

  • Proto-Cypriote style

    The earliest of Einar Gjerstad's style groups for Cypro-Archaic sculpture, dated in his scheme to about the late seventh and early sixth centuries BCE.

  • Neo-Cypriote style

    One of Einar Gjerstad's style groups for Cypro-Archaic sculpture, following the Proto-Cypriote and dated in his scheme to about 560–520 BCE.

  • Kore

    A Greek Archaic statue of a standing, clothed young woman (plural korai), a type Cypriot sculptors followed from the late sixth century BCE.

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