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Berge Missakian
Berge Missakian (1933–2017) was an Egyptian-Canadian artist. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, of Armenian heritage and studied in Beirut and New York before settling in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, from 1962 until his death in 2017. Missakian studied at American University of Beirut, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and at Concordia University in Montreal. The collection of his 15 paintings, ''Colors of a Genocide'', is at the Armenian Library and Museum of America Armenian Museum of America (AMA), located in Watertown, Massachusetts, United States, is an institution that has the largest collection of Armenian artifacts in North America. History In 1971, alarmed by the growing loss and destruction of Armen ... in Watertown, Massachusetts, US. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Missakian, Berge Cubist artists 2017 deaths 20th-century Canadian painters Canadian male painters 21st-century Canadian painters 1933 births 20th-century Canadian male artists 21st-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria grew rapidly and became a major centre of Hellenic civilisation, eventually replacing Memphis, in present-day Greater Cairo, as Egypt's capital. During the Hellenistic period, it was home to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which ranked among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as well as the storied Library of Alexandria. Today, the library is reincarnated in the disc-shaped, ultramodern Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Its 15th-century seafront Qaitbay Citadel is now a museum. Called the "Bride of the Mediterranean" by locals, Alexandria is a popular tourist destination and an important industrial centre due to its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. The city extends about along the northern coast of Egypt, and is the largest city on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
