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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/16029| Title: | The identity of Caravaggio's 'Knight of Malta' |
| Authors: | Gash, John |
| Keywords: | Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610. Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli -- Criticism and interpretation Knights of Malta -- Malta -- History -- 17th century Martelli, Antonio Order of St John -- Malta -- History -- 17th century Knights of Malta -- In art Order of St John -- In art |
| Issue Date: | 1997-03 |
| Publisher: | The Burlington Magazine |
| Citation: | Gash, J. (1997). The identity of Caravaggio's 'Knight of Malta'. The Burlington Magazine, 139(1128), 156-160. |
| Abstract: | Mina Gregoris inspired attribution of the Palazzo Pitti's portrait of a Knight of Malta (Figs. l and 4) to Caravaggio in 1966 has borne fruit in a widespread, if not quite universal, acceptance of it as a masterpiece of the artist's last years. ' But whether it was executed in Malta during Caravaggio's protracted sojourn there from 12th/14th July 1607 to September/October 1608, or in Sicily or Naples (where the Knights of the Order of St John of Jerusalem had priories and commanderies) or at another date during his last four zuanderfahre, has not been clear. Technical and colouristic parallels point most forcefully towards Malta or the immediately following year in Sicily, but this does not exclude the possibility that it was painted during one of the two enveloping Neapolitan phases (1606-07 and 1609-10). |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/16029 |
| Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtHa |
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