Mattia Preti also painted four paintings of saints connected with the plague – Saint Roque, Saint Sebastian, St Rosalia, and St Nicholas. St Roque is the saint most connected iconographically ...

Mattia Preti, the very prolific baroque painter of the 17th century, ... Coming from the local petty nobility, the family could afford to finance his necessary study and travel.

By that time, Preti, who came from a noble family that had seen better days, had come to know about the Order of St John and had already become a Knight of Obedience through the Pope.

Mattia Preti soon came back to Malta and in September 1661, Grand Master Rafael Cotoner, the successor of de Redin, and like him from the Langue of Aragon, accepted Preti’s offer to redecorate ...

A new publication on Mattia Preti complementing the international exhibition ‘Mattia Preti – Faith and Humanity’ which is to be held in Malta at the Grandmaster’s Palace this coming May!

Other books such as Mattia Preti: The Triumphant Manner and Caravaggio to Mattia Preti will be also available for sale at a discounted price on Saturday. The event will be held at 10am.

The challenging restoration project of Mattia Preti’s altarpiece, the Immaculate Conception at Floriana’s Sarria Church, undertaken by Din l-Art Ħelwa, is advancing steadily and is planned to ...

There, Preti fell under the influence of the Bolognese school. He may have visited Venice where he came under the influence of the great Venetian artists of his time, from Titian to Veronese.

Mattia Preti soon came back to Malta and in September 1661, Grand Master Rafael Cotoner, the successor of de Redin, and like him from the Langue of Aragon, accepted Preti’s offer to redecorate ...