Essays on the Knights and art and architecture in Malta, 1500-1798 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sta. Venera, Malta :
Midsea Books,
2009.
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| Series: | Maltese social studies ;
16. |
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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.