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The National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta

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The museum houses key works, including noteworthy examples of international importance, from the national collection of Malta. A conspicuous number of works originally belonged to the Order of the Knights of St John and come from the Magisterial Palace, the various auberges in which the knights took up residence, churches belonging to the Order, and the other places falling directly under the administration of the Order. To this original nucleus were added important acquisitions affected through the local and international market, bequests by public spirited individuals and donations. The architecture of the building is an important example of the mid-eighteenth century late baroque style in Malta boasting one of the finest main staircases to be seen on the island.

14th century Florentine School Crucifixion scene with the Annunciation of the Virgin

Maestro di Campodonico (active approximately 1346)

The Flagellation and other scenes, including the Last Judgment, Holy Women Awaiting, Saints Nicholas of Bari, Stephen and Damian

Maestro di Campodonico (active approximately 1346)

Master of Campodonico(active approximately 1346)

Greek School 17th or 18th Century The Presentation

of the Virgin

Early 14th century Byzantine School Painting on wall

Domenico de Michelino (1417-1491) Madonna and Child with

Saints

Style of Sandro Boticelli (1444-1510) Virgin Mary and Christ Child

16th century Florentine School, Italy The Holy Family With the young St John the Baptist

Florentine School 16th centuryMadonna and Child

Filippo Paladini (1544-1616)Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria

Filippo Paladini (1544-1616)

Mystic Marriage of St Catherine of Alexandria

After Francesco Vecellio (1485-1560) Mystic marriage of St Catherine

Stefano Erardi (1630-1716)

Christ and the Samaritan woman

Gian Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) St Margaret of Cortona

Maltese prie-DieuAndrea Belvedere (1642-1732) Capriccio with Herm

Andrea Belvedere (1642-1732) Capriccio

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Francesco Trevisani (1656-1746) Madonna and Child

Room 16 Italian Baroque paintings along with Maltese, Italian and French furniture, all dating to the 17th and 18th centuries.

Carlo Maratta (1625-1713) Madonna and Child with St.John the Baptist

Carlo Maratta (1625-1713) Madonna and Child with St.John the Baptist

Francesco De Mura

(1696-1782) Allegory of

Malta

Italian School late 17th century Madonna and child

Lorenzo de Caro (active 1740-

1762) St. Francis

Xavier

Italian School late 17th century The Virgin Annunciate

Malta have embarked on a project to develop a new museum typology, purposely created for Malta, MUZA, which shall be Malta’s national institution for the arts. The acronym stands for National Museum of Fine Arts but also refers to the Muses and MUŻA is the Maltese word for inspiration.

Corrado Giaquinto (1703-1765) Madonna

and Child

Giovanni Domenico Lombardi (1682-1752) Annunciation

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Room 18 has scenes of Malta by 19th-century British artists, including lovely paintings of Gozo by poet Edward Lear, and a small Turner watercolour depicting a Grand Harbour scene (1830) – the museum's pride and joy. Curiously enough, Turner never visited Malta; the work is based on scenes painted by another artist.

Joseph Mallord William Turner(1775 – 1851)

Malta

Joseph Mallord William Turner(1775 – 1851) Malta

Col.V.Godfrey (fl.1890-1910) A view of Marsa from Fort St Angelo

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

Malta from a painting by

J.R.Carmichael, 1856 Sepia Print

Carmelo Mangion (1905 – 1997)

Filippo Annivitti (1876-1955) Campagna Romana - Roman Landscape

Adriano Cecioni (1836-1886) Interior with Women

R.Ferro (active 1920) Portrait of a Sardinian Woman

Emvin Cremona (1919-1987) Abstract

Harry Alden (1929-)

Antonio Barrera (1889-1970) Portrait of a woman

Renato Tomassi (1886-1972) Study of a head

Francesco Lojacono (1841-1915) Pier over a river

Caesar Attard (born 1946) Pregnant Madonna

Ignazio Cefai (1894-1981) Portrait of a little boy called Walter

Henry Casolani (1817-1885) Portrait of Flora, the Artist's sister

Joseph Caruana (1928-2012) Portrait of Maria (his wife)

Lazzaro Pisani (1854-1932) Portrait of Concetta Pisani

Karmenu Mangion (Maltese, 1905-1997) The Bagpipe Player (Gigi il Moro)

Anton Inglott (1915-1945)

Ave Maria Triptych (Maltese Modernist style)

Isabelle Borg (1959-2010) Blue Vault – St John, Stage Three

Antonio Sciortino (Maltese, 1879 - 1947) Rythmii Vitae

(Detail)

Isabelle Borg (1959-2010) Blue Vault – St John, Stages One , Two and Three

Isabelle Borg (1959-2010)

Antonio Sciortino (Maltese, 1879 - 1947) Rythmii Vitae

(Detail)

Anton Inglott (1915-1945) Portrait of sculptor George Borg

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