MAKARIOS-III ART GALLERY

This museum of pictorial art (Πινακοθήκη Ιδρύματος Αρχιεπισκόπου Μακαρίου Γ'/Pinakothiki Technis Idrymatos Archiepiskopou Makariou G, Archbishop Makarios III Foundation Art Galleries) belongs to the Makarios-III Foundation and adjoins the prestigious Byzantine Museum within the Archbishop's Palace complex. At the time we finished this guide, it too was being restored, with reopening scheduled for summer 2024. Established in 1982, the Pinacoteca boasts an interesting collection of works acquired in 1963 by Archbishop-President Makarios III. European painting of the ^16th-19th centuries is well represented, with numerous canvases (often anonymous) from the Italian, Flemish and French schools. Highlights include Nicolas Poussin's Le Sacrifice de Noé après le Déluge (^17th century), a Satyre (^19th century) by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, a portrait of St. John the Baptist (^16th century) by Caravaggio and Sebastiano del Piombo's Le Christ descendu de la Croix (^16th century). The new museography should also highlight two engravings by Claude Gellée, known as Le Lorrain (1600-1682), an 1817 study by Géricault for The Raft of the Medusa and a painting signed "E. D." and attributed to Eugène Delacroix: Le comte de Palagiano en costume grec (1885). Cypriot and Greek works include paintings by Nikos Khatzikyriakos-Ghikas (1906-1994) and Adamantios Diamantis (1900-1994).