Essays on the Knights and art and architecture in Malta, 1500-1798 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Buhagiar, Mario, 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sta. Venera, Malta : Midsea Books, 2009.
Series:Maltese social studies ; 16.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Frivolous and vainglorious Grand Master de Paul
  • Hughes de Loubens de Verdalle 1531-1582-1595, Cardinal and Grand Master
  • The miraculous image of the Madonna of Phileremos and its uniqueness to the Knight Hospitallers of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta
  • The treasure of relics and reliquaries of the Knight Hospitallers of Malta
  • The treasure of the Knit Hospitallers in 1530: reflections and art historical considerations
  • Church art and architecture in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries: a focus on some of Malta's lesser known artistic heritage
  • The baroque art of the Maltese Islands
  • Two signed paintings by Giulio Cassarino
  • The Beheading of St. Catherine at Zejtun, Malta: a Maltese-Sicilian Caravaggist painting
  • Paintings in Gozo: patronage in a small island community
  • Images of death in early modern paintings in Malta
  • Malta's art historical contacts with France: 1530-1798
  • The Auberge d'Aragon: an art historical appreciation
  • The ceiling of the Church of the Virgin of Victory, Valletta: its significance to the history of Maltese baroque painting
  • The paintings of Francesco Vincenzo Zahra (1710-1773): a critical appreciation
  • The Church of St. James in Merchants Street, Valletta: an art historical appreciation
  • Niccolò Nasoni between Malta and Portugal
  • Antonio Pippi: a forgotten quadraturista
  • The cathedral city of Mdina: a case study of baroque triumphal revivalism in the central Mediterranean island principality of the Knights of the Hospital of St. John
  • The Portuguese socio-artistic imprint on eighteenth century Malta: the baroque triumphalism of Don Antonio Manoel de Vilhena and Don Emanuel Pinto de Fonseca.