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The Conventual Church of the Knights of Malta
St John's Co-Cathedral is a gem of Baroque art and architecture. This title outlines the history of St John's Co-Cathedral. It also describes the chapels, the art and the treasures found within.
St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta
'St John's Co-Cathedral' is a guidebook about this gem of baroque art and architecture with its rich history and artistic heritage. This is due to the fact that for over 200 years it was the conventual church of the Order of St John of Jerusalem. The history of the Church is directly tied to the history of the Order in Malta over the years. The grandmasters, dignitaries and knights donated gifts of high artistic value and made enormous contributions to enrich it with the best works of art by the leading artists available to them. The knights themselves referred to the church as 'La nostra chiesa maggiore della Sacra Religione Gerosolmitana'.
Caravaggio and Paintings of Realism in Malta
In July 1608, Caravaggio was invested with the habit of Magistral Obedience by Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master of the Knights of Malta. In honouring Caravaggio, the Grand Master thought that he would thus keep the artist firmly attached to the Order of St John, hoping that the Order would find glory through his art: 'we wish to gratify the desire of this excellent painter, so that our Island Malta, and our Order may at last glory in this adopted disciple and citizen' (extract from the document of Caravaggio's investiture). The artist, however, soon fell out of grace and was deprived of his knighthood in the very same year. Malta had thus, strictly speaking, 'lost' Caravaggio. Caravaggio's p...
Mattia Preti
"This book studies the iconography of saints and heroes of the Knights of Malta as depicted by the artist Mattia Preti between 1658 and 1698."- [preface].
Plunder
"History of Napoleon's art looting of Italy and the subsequent formation of the Louvre"--
The Twenty Days of Turin: A Novel
An NPR Best Book of the Year Written during the height of the 1970s Italian domestic terror, a cult novel, with distinct echoes of Lovecraft and Borges, makes its English-language debut. In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon of collective psychosis" culminating in nightl...
Malta
There is much to see in Malta beyond the beach. With Bradt's "Malta" visitors will discover this island's history, archaeology and birds alongside eating and sleeping options of character and interest.
