Essays on the Knights and art and architecture in Malta, 1500-1798
By: Mario Buhagiar
Series: Maltese social studies series -- no. 16; Maltese social studies -- 16.
Publisher: Midsea Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Sta Venera, Malta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9789993272465
Subjects: Art; Architecture; Architektur; Johanniter; Knights of Malta; Malteser; Kunst; History
Notes: Collection of essays previously published 1964-2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-[318]) and index.
Table of contents: title: Frivolous and vainglorious Grand Master de Paul; title: Hughes de Loubens de Verdalle 1531-1582-1595, cardinal and Grand Master; title: The miraculous image of the Madonna of Phileremos and its uniqueness to the Knight Hospitallers of Jerusalem, Rhodes and Malta; title: The treasure of relics and reliquaries of the Knight Hospitallers of Malta; title: The treasure of the Knight Hospitallers in 1530 : reflections and art historical considerations; title: Church art and architecture in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries : a focus on some of Malta's lesser known artistic heritage; title: The baroque art of the Maltese Islands; title: Two signed paintings by Giulio Cassarino; title: The Beheading of St Catherine at Zejtun, Malta : a Maltese-Sicilian Caravaggist painting; title: Paintings in Gozo : patronage in a small island community; title: Images of death in early modern paintings in Malta; title: Malta's art historical contacts with France, 1530-1798; title: The Auberge d'Aragon : an art historical appreciation; title: The ceiling of the Church of the Virgin of Victory, Valletta : its significance to the history of Maltese baroque painting; title: The paintings of Francesco Vincenzo Zahra (1710-1773) : a critical appreciation; title: The Church of St James in Merchants Street, Valletta : an art historical appreciation; title: Niccolò Nasoni between Malta and Portugal; title: Antonio Pippi : a forgotten quadraturista; title: 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; title: The Portuguese socio-artistic imprint on eighteenth century Malta : the baroque triumphalism of Don Antonio Manoel de Vilhena and Don Emanuel Pinto de Fonseca.