Baroque painting in Malta
By: Keith Sciberras
Publisher: Midsea Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Valletta, Malta
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9789993272496
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-445) and index.
Table of contents: title: The pre-Baroque years; title: Realism and naturalism : Caravaggio; title: Bolognese Classicism : Leonello Spada; title: Caravaggism in Malta : imported works; title: Caravaggism in Malta : copies after Caravaggio and works executed in Malta; title: The mid-seventeenth century : high art and the vernacular; title: The Baroque Macchina : Mattia Preti; title: The bottega of Mattia Preti and Giuseppe D'Arena; title: Late Baroque classicism : Stefano and Alessio Erardi; title: The early eighteenth century; title: Horror vacui and dry classicism : Gio Nicola Buhagiar and Enrico Regnaud; title: Mid-eighteenth century works by foreign artists; title: The triumph of the Maltese Late Baroque : Francesco Zahra; title: French and Roman taste : Antoine Favray; title: A dying style : Rocco Buhagiar; title: Talent and tragedy : Giuseppe Grech; title: The late eighteenth century and the end of the Baroque; title: Select list of works in ecclesiastical and public collections.