Adamantios Diamantis

Adamantios Diamantis was born in Nicosia on January 23, 1900. After graduating with distinction from the Royal College of Art in London where he studied alongside Henry Moore, Diamantis returned to Cyprus in 1926 to teach art at the Pancyprian Gymnasium for thirty-six years.

Traversing remote villages across the Mesaoria and Troodos Mountains with his sketchbook, Diamantis spent decades painting traditional Cypriot life. His masterpiece, the monumental 17.5-meter oil painting The World of Cyprus (O Kosmos tis Kyprou), remains the ultimate visual monument of modern Cypriot ethnographic heritage.