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
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was launched by
RIBA Competitions RIBA Competitions is the Royal Institute of British Architects' unit dedicated to organising architectural and other design-related competitions.
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to design the art gallery with restaurant and housing for the
A. G. Leventis Foundation, a private foundation supporting educational, cultural and philanthropic causes mainly in Cyprus and Greece and promoting Hellenic culture. Following this competition
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
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were selected and the project was completed in Jan. 2013.
Collections
The Greek collection
The Greek Collection includes works by artists from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Paris collection
The Paris Collection includes works by important European artists of the 17th to the 20th century. Works by
Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Painter of cityscapes or ...
,
François Boucher
François Boucher ( , ; ; 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770) was a French painter, draughtsman and etcher, who worked in the Rococo style. Boucher is known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories ...
, Fragonard,
Corot
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, Boudin, Renoir, Monet, Signac and Chagall are on public display.
The Cyprus collection
The Cyprus Collection includes works of art by Cypriot artists since 1900.
References
External links
Official Homepage
Museums in Nicosia
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