Glossary Sculpture, figurines and art
Neo-Cypriote style
Also called: Neo-Cypriot 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.
Gjerstad distinguished Eastern and Western variants of the Neo-Cypriote style and set it in the mid-sixth century, alongside the Cypro-Egyptian style for Egyptianizing limestone. In the literature the term labels a style of carving, so a single figure can be at once a votary, a limestone statue and a Neo-Cypriote work.
Critics, beginning with Cornelius Vermeule in 1974, argued that the Neo-Cypriote and Cypro-Egyptian styles might virtually disappear into the Archaic Cypro-Greek, since much of the limestone from Golgoi and Idalion falls within a narrower span. The name survives in museum catalogues. See how Cypriot figurines are classified.
Full entry: How Cypriot Figurines Are Classified
Related terms
- 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.
- 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.
- Egyptianizing
Borrowing the look of Egyptian art (dress, poses, crowns and motifs) in objects made outside Egypt, often through Phoenician intermediaries.