https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40160 2026-04-24T03:37:33Z 2026-04-24T03:37:33Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40239 2020-06-02T07:23:04Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Melchiorre Cafa : Maltese genius of the Roman baroque [Book Review] Abstract: Melchiorre Cafa’ must be counted as one of the most talented Maltese artists of the 17th century, honoured to have been recognised as a great sculpror by the brilliant Gianlorenzo Bernini himself, who worked in Rome as his contemporary. This volume is a worthy tribute to an artist of exceptional talent. It is the first full-scale study dedicated to this artist, well-illustrated and finely produced, edited by Keith Sciberras of the University of Malta with contributions by an eminent group of international scholars working in the field of Baroque art. Description: This document contains information with regard to art heritage activities in Malta and Europe, including conferences, seminars, exhibitions and lectures. In addition, a list of recent theses by students presented to the International Institute for Baroque Studies is outlined (pp. 19-20).

2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40222 2019-02-21T02:22:53Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: An architect in context – Francesco Buonamici [Book Review : Francesco Buonamici: painter, architect and military engineer in seventeenth century Malta and Italy] Abstract: When, in September 1635, the famous Italian military engineer Pietro Paolo Floriani arrived in Malta to undertake and implement his plans for the extension of fortification works outside the city of Valletta, he had with him as his assistant Francesco Buonamici, an architect and painter from Lucca who was then in his late thirties. The Floriani mission, which commenced at the request of Grand Master Antoine de Paule, enjoyed the protection of Cardinal Francesco Barberini, the powerful nephew of Pope Urban VIII. Cardinal Barberini had rallied experts who were close to him and instructed the Papal Legate and Inquisitor in Malta, Mgr Fabio Chigi, to extend his protection directly over them while they were on the island.

2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40221 2024-12-16T09:30:40Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Studies on Caravaggio and the Maltese context Abstract: Before the mid-70s there hardly existed any extensive and comprehensive studies of Caravaggio’s last four years of life in which he produced his greatest masterpieces. Over the last thirty years a surprising variety of studies have been published - containing unpublished documentary sources for Caravaggio’s biography and the chronology of his works, and also fresh analyses both of his iconography and his technique with accounts showing the correspondence between his equally revolutionary content and style.

2007-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40214 2020-06-01T14:18:01Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The art of fortress building in Hospitaller Malta Abstract: The religious and military Order of the Knights of St. John sought to affirm its destiny in stone. Its long military history can be said to have been moulded by ramparts of stone. Indeed, the one constant feature of the Hospitaller war machine throughout its long six hundred-year history was its heavy reliance on formidable strongholds and forts. In all the theatres of war in which the Order established its convent - the Latin East, Rhodes, and Malta - fortifications were the Order’s prime instrument of war.

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