Nationality Ukrainian Known for cameo carving | Name Sviatoslav Nikitenko | |
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Born 15 April 1960 Rostov-on-Don, USSR, now Russia | ||
Sviatoslav Nikitenko (Ukrainian: Нікітéнко Святослáв Олексíйович, Nikitenko Sviatoslav Oleksiiovych; 15 April 1960 - Ukrainian glyptic artist.
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Biography
Was born on 15 April 1960 in the city of Rostov-on-Don (USSR). In 1982 graduated from Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture in Dnipropetrovsk, architectural faculty. After the graduation worked as an architect. At the same time started wooden miniatures carving. At the beginning of the 1990s began to carve cameos and intaglios. Since 1994 participates in art exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad. In 2000 joined the National Artists' Union of Ukraine. For today completed more than 460 gems.
Works
The works are presented by cameos and intaglios. First cameos of Nikitenko were carved of bone, then the artist started to process gemstones. The main raw materials are citrine, topaz, carnelian, morion and other hard gemstones. In the middle of the 1990s Nikitenko started working on restoring of the traditions of the Christian glyptic, which was developed in Byzantine Empire and was also spread in Kievan Rus'. Some works of Nikitenko are devoted to the subjects of the Classical antiquity art, besides are presented by portraits The works are in own of Church and in private collections of many countries