Heritage Malta has announced the programme of events to complement the exhibition in order to make the Mattia Preti experience a more holistic one. The first two of a series of gallery talks will be held on Friday 10th May. “Actors and Audiences in Mattia Preti’s Paintings” will be presented by curator Bernadine Scicluna at […]
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Paint it like Preti: Workshops on Mattia Preti’s manufacturing techniques for painting on canvas and stone
Heritage Malta will be organising workshops on Mattia Preti’s manufacturing techniques for oil painting on canvas and stone On the occasion of the exhibition “Mattia Preti: Faith and Humanity”, which will be running at the President’s Palace State Rooms in Valletta between 3rd May? and 7th July, Heritage Malta will be engaging the visitors with […]
Parliamentary Secretary Jose Herrera launches Mattia Preti exhibition
Parliamentary Secretary Dr. Jose Herrera on Monday morning launched the exhibition “Mattia Preti: Faith and Humanity” which will open to the public as from the 4th of May at the Grandmaster’s Palace. The 4th May marks another very important appointment for Heritage Malta in its calendar of events. In fact, it marks the day when […]
Reunited – three and a half centuries later
A Mattia Preti painting and its preparatory drawing will be on display side by side for the first time in Malta at the forthcoming international exhibition “Mattia Preti – Faith and Humanity” as from the 4th of May at the Palace State Rooms in Valletta In the late seventeenth century the Spanish Knight of Malta […]
Mattia Preti Re-discovered
The results of research and investigations on Mattia Preti’s “Martyrdom of St Catherine” to be presented at the Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Heritage Malta and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura will be presenting the results of the scientific investigations carried out on Mattia Preti’s Martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria undertaken jointly by the National Museum […]
Mattia Preti – Beyond the Self-Portrait
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! The international exhibition “Mattia Preti – Faith and Humanity” will be inaugurated in Taverna, its first venue, this coming 24th February on the 400th anniversary from the […]
Pret for Preti
Mattia Preti’s fourth centenary from his birth in 2013 as the backdrop for the event of the year. Preparations for the Mattia Preti international exhibition are in full swing. This will be Heritage Malta’s major event for 2013; a joint collaboration between the National Museum of Fine Arts and Museo Civico di Taverna which will […]