Baroque painting in Malta
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Midsea Books,
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Publisher Address: | Valletta, Malta |
Publication Dates: | 2009. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xii, 450 p.: ill. ; 31 cm. |
ISBN: |
9789993272496 9993272493 |
Index Number: | J233(549) |
CLC: | J233(549) |
Call Number: | J233(549)/S416 |
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In collab. with Department of History of Art, University of Malta. Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-445) and index. The pre-Baroque years -- Realism and naturalism : Caravaggio -- Bolognese Classicism : Leonello Spada -- Caravaggism in Malta : imported works -- Caravaggism in Malta : copies after Caravaggio and works executed in Malta -- The mid-seventeenth century : high art and the vernacular -- The Baroque Macchina : Mattia Preti -- The bottega of Mattia Preti and Giuseppe D'Arena -- Late Baroque classicism : Stefano and Alessio Erardi -- The early eighteenth century -- Horror vacui and dry classicism : Gio Nicola Buhagiar and Enrico Regnaud -- Mid-eighteenth century works by foreign artists -- The triumph of the Maltese Late Baroque : Francesco Zahra -- French and Roman taste : Antoine Favray -- A dying style : Rocco Buhagiar -- Talent and tragedy : Giuseppe Grech -- The late eighteenth century and the end of the Baroque -- Select list of works in ecclesiastical and public collections. |