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Mattia Preti (Hardcover)
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2013 will mark the 400th anniversary of the birth of the artist
Mattia Preti (1613-1699), who spent forty years of his working life
in Malta. Midsea Books, in collaboration with the Department of
History of Art at the University of Malta, are working together to
publish an outstanding book that discusses critically the artist s
oeuvre in Malta. Research for this superb book is co-ordinated by
Professor Keith Sciberras, who is also the author of the two
critical essays which compose the first part of the book. Over 150
catalogue entries are co-authored by Professor Sciberras and Ms
Jessica Borg M.A. The book will include over 270 paintings. The
images of the paintings in Malta are being taken purposely for this
book by master photographer Mr Joe P. Borg. Born in Taverna,
Calabria, in 1613, Mattia Preti emerged as a leading exponent of
the forceful Baroque of mid-17th century Italy, working in a
tradition which brilliantly captured the characteristics of
monumental dynamism and theatrical appeal. An extraordinary
draughtsman and painterly virtuoso, he was quick with his brush and
produced hundreds of pictures which spanned a career of some
seventy years. His life-story can be easily and neatly divided in
an early training and first maturity in Rome, his mid-years in
Naples, and the nearly four decades that he spent on Malta between
1661 and his death in 1699. An artist-knight, his life was also
conditioned by his membership in the chivalric Order of St John of
Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta. Preti s works for St John s
Conventual Church inspired a major transformation within the
church. The Baroque re-decoration programme which Preti was to
direct transformed the interior of the Conventual Church into one
of the most important nodes of Baroque art South of Rome. Preti was
to assume responsibility of painting the entire ceiling and many
altar paintings and lunettes. Moreover, he produced designs for the
carved decoration that spread throughout the church walls, the
inlaid marble slabs for the flooring and ephemera. Preti s
residency on the island did not go unnoticed and his circle of
admirers grew beyond the circle of the Knights of Malta. The church
and private patrons were attracted to his work. Owning a painting
by the artist grew to become a desideratum. The artist s technique
and method of painting was fast and he could rapidly execute large
scale works. His inventive genius kept up with the pace of his
technique and the artist thus produced a large corpus of paintings.
This lavish publication, which will mark the 400th anniversary from
the master s birth, will be another outstanding contribution to all
enthusiast of Maltese art and history."
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