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Mattia Preti: the Crown Jewels of the National Collection
MUŻA in Valletta has put together what is the most extensive public gathering of the famous Mattia Preti’s work. This area, one of five new galleries, was recently opened to the public and concludes the pending work in extensions to the European and Empire narratives.
Preti, who arrived on the Islands in the 1650s and established a career that spanned 40 years, managed to significantly impact Baroque Art and other Maltese artists and foreign artists working locally. Settling in Valletta, where he opened a successful bottega, Preti set his sights on escaping his lowly Taverna-born origins and viewed the Order of St. John as his fast track to nobility. In the 17th Century, being a painter was considered manual labour, something which always irked the ambitious young Italian artist, eager to impress. Preti began by ingratiating himself with the Auberge d'Italie through his presentation piece, 'The Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria.' Various art historians hypothetically link this to the superb canvas in the national collection. An X-Ray interpretation panel in the gallery reveals the strategic choice of subject -the patron saint of the Auberge- to be an overpainting
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Discovering Mattia Preti, the Calabrian Knight
Born in 1613 in Taverna, one of the towns that today fall within the territory of the Sila National Park (Catanzaro side), Mattia Preti is one of the exponents of the Italian Late Baroque, in particular of the so-called "Caravaggismo" (painting inspired by Caravaggio) and 17th century Neapolitan painting.
Nicknamed the "Calabrian Knight", in reference to his investiture as Knight of Malta by Pope Urban VIII, he was mainly active in Rome, Naples and the island of Malta, but did not forget his origins, leaving traces of himself in his birthplace and throughout Calabria.
Our journey in the footsteps of Mattia Preti takes us on a discovery of the Knight's places and works in the land of his birth.
Mattia Preti and Taverna
In the small Presilan town of Taverna, Mattia Preti was entrusted by his father to a tutor, Don Marcello Anania, the parish priest of the Church of Santa Barbara, who instructed him and his brother Gregorio, who were already predisposed to drawing, before seeing them off to Rome, where he facilitated the contacts.
Today, several works by the great local artist can be admired in the same church: The Patronage of Saint Barbara, the Madonna of Loreto (a Madonna and Child with Adoratio
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In the footsteps of representation Master: Depiction followers encourage Mattia Preti in Malta
Preti's Followers
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