Nicodemo "Nik" Spatari (16 April 1929 [1] – 25 August 2020) was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and art scholar. He created the "Parco-Museo Santa Barbara", known also as MUSABA, an open-air art museum realised in the 10th century St. Barbara monastery area close to Spatari's birthplace of Mammola, in south-eastern Calabria. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]