Lecture: The Pierides Family Ethnographic Collection

Tue Feb 25, 2014

19:30

Location

Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
86-90 Phaneromenis Str.
Nicosia, Nicosia 1011

Description

The Ethnographic Collection has been accumulated through the years by three generations of the Pierides family in Larnaca. It is an important collection of objects of Cypriot folk art, related to the rural and urban living in Cyprus. It includes weaved and embroidered pieces, traditional costumes, silver-ware and jewellery, woodcarvings, ceramics, as well as tools and utensils. The Collection was acquired by the Laiki Group in 2006 and since June 2013 it belongs to the Collections of the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.

Speaker: Euphrosyne Rizopoulou-Egoumenidou
Professor Emerita, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus and author of the publication The Laiki Group Ethnographic Collection

Representative items from the collection will be displayed in the lecture hall.

*The lecture will be delivered in Greek.

Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation
>Andreas Patsalides Hall