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
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.
- 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.