Portrait of a Knight of Malta (Fra Antonio Martelli)

Debono, Sandro

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Title:	Portrait of a Knight of Malta (Fra Antonio Martelli)
Other Titles:	Malta : land of sea
Authors:	Debono, Sandro
Keywords:	Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610. Portrait of Fra Antonio Martelli -- Criticism and interpretation Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da, 1573-1610 -- Travel -- Malta Martelli, Antonio Paintings -- Malta -- 17th century Malta -- History -- Knights of Malta, 1530-1798 Order of St John -- Malta -- History -- 17th century Knights of Malta -- In art Order of St John -- In art
Issue Date:	2017
Publisher:	Midsea Books Ltd.
Citation:	Debono, S. (2017). Portrait of a Knight of Malta (Fra Antonio Martelli). In S. Debono (Ed.), Malta: Land of sea (pp. 184-185). Malta: Midsea Books.
Abstract:	This is one of a small group of paintings painted by Michaelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio during his brief stay in Malta between July 1607 and October 1608 which, besides this portrait, include a small corpus of works painted for a restricted circle of friends close to the Grand Master Aloph de Wignacourt. The only two paintings that are still in Malta are at St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta. These are the Beheading of St John the Baptist, the titular painting of the Oratory of the Beheading and which still hangs in situ, and the St Jerome, painted for the Knight of Malta, Fra Ippolito Malaspina, and which, until relatively recently, was still hanging in the chapel of St Catherine of Italy within the same church just over Malaspina’s tombstone. [Excerpt]
URI:	https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/108365
ISBN:	9789993276005
Appears in Collections:	Scholarly Works - FacEduAOCAE

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