Caravaggio’s Portrait of a Knight will be brought
to Malta in October 2007 to form part of the
exhibition “Caravaggio and Paintings of Realism in Malta”
organised by the Foundation for St John’s
Co-Cathedral.
The arrangements
for the loan of the painting were made with the Galleria Palatina at Palazzo
Pitti in Florence.
The painting will be brought
to Malta through the University of Malta’s academic collaboration with
international institutions.
It will be delivered to Malta
through the management and direction of the Malta Council for Culture and the
Arts and support of the Embassy of Italy in Malta. The University of Malta,
through Dr Keith Sciberras, is co-ordinating scholarship and research activity
for this exhibition. This project sees
the involvement of leading international scholars.
Caravaggio
arrived in Malta
in July 1607, almost exactly 400 years ago. His stay here had its ups and downs
but it did provide the artist with enough time and tranquillity to create some
of his most remarkable paintings. Two of the best known are found at St John’s Co-Cathedral – Beheading of Saint John the Baptist, and St Jerome. Another painting - the Portrait of a Knight - is found at
Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
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