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ART AS LIFE

CARAVAGGIO IN MALTA

Keith Sciberras

ISBN 978-99932-7956-3

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Publication: 1 MAY 2024
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ISBN: 9789993279563
Price: £65
Binding: Paperback

Format: 260 x 215 mm
Extent: 352 pp
Illustrated: 197 illustrations, mostly
colour

Thema: AGB Art: Individual Artists

This publication is the result of some thirty years of
research engaging with Caravaggio’s Maltese phase by
Prof Keith Sciberras. Malta, impressively, played a role in
giving Caravaggio’s art the platform that it deserved,
celebrating him in a manner that no other patron or place
did, and this work aims to show this. In its method, this
book, primarily, contextualises Caravaggio’s work and his
life-story within the framework of Malta and within the
mechanics of patronage and the peculiarity of its system of
Professor Keith Sciberras, Ph.D., (b.1970) is Head of the government. It engages with Caravaggio’s Maltese
Department of History of Art within the Department of History of Art, paintings and presents them not as objects of visual delight
University of Malta, where he is also Co-ordinator of the Caravaggio or seduction but as conveyors of meanings and
Studies Programme and a member of University's Senate (2013-). A experiences that engage with the self and the
Trustee of the Association of Art Historians (AAH) London (2012- consciousness of reality. The Oratory of the Decollato in
2014), he was received as an Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow (2005) Valletta, for example, ceased to be a dormant architectural
in the Department of European Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art, space once Caravaggio’s Beheading of St John the Baptist
New York, and has been awarded the National [Malta] Book Prize for was installed. It became a space of experience, captivating
Research and Best Publication (2006; 2009; 2010). He has published exchange its audience, penetrating into mental
extensively on Caravaggio, Mattia Preti, Roman Baroque sculpture, frameworks, thoughts and emotions. The profundity of this
and Baroque painting in general. exchange blurs the boundaries between object and viewer,
strengthening the view that the ultimate meaning of this
work lies not solely within the confines of the sense of sight.
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