Treasures Of Malta – Christmas 2015 No 64 Vol XXII No 1

Treasures Of Malta – Christmas 2015 No 64 Vol XXII No 1

ARTICLES

Giovanni Giulio Cassarino in Malta in the first half of the seventeenth century
Giuseppe Fiaccola offers clarifications and discusses new attributions relating to this ‘enigmatic’ artist

From the Albert Ganado Collection

Victor Pasmore in Malta
Theresa Vella outlines the artist’s life in art, focusing on the new gallery dedicated to his Malta years

The Beginnings of the Dobbie Portrait: Eric Kennington’s portrait of Lieutenant-General Dobbie
Christopher Grech and Caroline Miggiani present a portrait of a military personality by a British official war artist of both the First and Second World Wars

Through the Looking Glass: A set of table goblets at Palazzo Falson, Mdina
Norman Wilson studies a set of goblets within the collections at Palazzo Falson, and traces their manufacturer

My Favourite Object
Marlene Farrugia

Witty Caricatures by Pier Leone Ghezzi at the National Library of Malta
John Varriano discusses five brilliant drawings by this Italian artist who is said to have been Europe’s first professional caricaturist

Melitensia Curios
William Zammit

The Restoration of the Tombstone of the Knight Fra Don Cesare Lopez
Cynthia de Giorgio

A Tribute to Alfred Chircop
Charlene Vella eulogizes one of the most influential, abstract and spiritual artists of the Maltese Islands

The Malta Private Archive Digitization Project undertaken by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti in collaboration with the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library

Bookshelf

Bonaventura Rubino’s Messa de Morti a’ 5 concertata, 1653
Cecilia Xuereb

Letter to the Editor

A subject index to the illustrations in Treasures of Malta, Vol. XXI
Paul Xuereb

Index: Treasures of Malta: Vol.XXI

The Cover

Cultural Calendar
Cecilia Xuereb

Valletta International Baroque Festival 2016