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Title: | An early documented work by Antonio Sciortino |
Authors: | Sagona, Mark |
Keywords: | Sciortino, Antonio, 1879-1947 Sculptors -- Malta -- Biography Processional crosses -- Malta -- Żejtun -- History -- 20th century Parish Church of St. Catherine of Alexandria (Żejtun, Malta) Fratellanza tas-Sagrament (Żejtun, Malta) Holy Cross in art |
Issue Date: | 2005 |
Publisher: | Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti |
Citation: | Sagona, M. (2005). An early documented work by Antonio Sciortino. Treasures of Malta, 34, XII(1), 71-73. |
Abstract: | It is always an elating experience when a previously unknown document or work of art is brought to light, especially when this document refers to the magnificent oeuvre of Antonio Sciortino (1879-1947). On the 20th December 1902, Sciortino, in Rome, on the brink of his twenty-fourth birthday, signed a receipt for the expenses incurred in the production of a plaster model of a small Crucifix, and the transportation to Malta of a silver cast (69 x 43cm) of the same Crucifix. The signed receipt survives in the Żejtun Parish Archives. In it, Sciortino declares that he had received the sum of £37.18.1 ¼ from Rev. Felice Micallef Grimaud, Procurator of the Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament of Żejtun parish church, as payment for the cost of silver, manufacture, packing and postage for a silver Crucifix and its plaster model. The receipt is further buttressed by a more detailed account in the registers of the mentioned Żejtun confraternity. [Excerpt] |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/103649 |
ISSN: | 10283013 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtHa |
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