Stelio Scamanga (1934 - 2021) was born in Damascus to Greek parents in 1934 before the family relocated to Beirut in 1952. Scamanga received his Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut in 1960. Trained as an architect, he began painting inspired by Byzantine iconography, before gravitating towards abstraction. He was a painter renowned for his abstract works blending a passion for architecture with lavish, lyrical expression and was a key figure in shaping the Lebanese artistic scene during Beirut’s golden sixties. He held several solo exhibitions at galleries and venues in Beirut in that era, including in: 1960 at Unesco Palace, 1961 and 1970 at Gallery One, 1972 at Modulart GAllery, and in 1974 at Delta International Gallery. Scamanga has also held solo shows at major European institutions including: Atehenee Museum in Geneva in 1987, Centre Cultural Jean Monnet in Saint Genis, FR in 1989 1997, and 2002. Scamanga left Beirut for Geneva in 1976 and ultimately settled in France in 1970 before passing away in 2021. His work is in the collection of the Sursock Museum, Beirut.