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Author: Dominic Cutajar Photography: Maurizio Urso Size: 16.5 x 23cm Soft cover Number of pages 126 ISBN: 99909-90-00-X German ISBN 99909-90-03-4 French ISBN 99909-90-02-6 |
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This book evaluates and documents the artistic heritage of St. John's co-Cathedral, the most important artistic entity in the Maltese island. The author in this book studiously avoided quoting sources already given by his predecessors but chooses to expand precisely to those new sources, which bring into sharper light the history and art contained in this magnificent church. The reader will thus have the benefit of savouring a coherent history of the conventual church of the Order of St. John's, as well as reviewing its great works-of-art in the light of more scholarly contribution, together with the fruits of the present writer's own researches. The church of St. John is the most artistic entity in the Maltese islands. We now know it better as the Co-Cathedral of St. John, but it owns its artistic and historical eminence to the fact that for the first two centuries of its history, it was the conventual church of the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. The Knights themselves referred to the church as 'La nostra chiesa maggiore della Sacra Religione Gerosalmitana' - practically their religious headquarters. And for this reason they spend huge sums of money and enormous efforts to enrich it with the finest works-of-art, to endow it so that it serves as an opulent showpiece for state occasions, and to maintain in continual splendour. |
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History and Works of art of St. John's Church Valletta - Malta |
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