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Mattia Preti (24 February 1613 – 3 January 1699) was an Italian Baroque artist who worked in Italy and Malta. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Saint John . Life
The Martyrdom of Saint Peter is a c.1630-1650 oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti, now in the Museum of Grenoble, which acquired it in 1828. [1] It had previously passed through the Palais Royal 's collection (which it entered in 1728).
Saint Anthony Abbot (Preti) Saint George on Horseback; Saint John the Baptist (Preti) Saint John the Baptist Wearing the Red Tabard of the Order of Saint John; Saint Nicholas (Preti) Saint Sebastian (Preti) San Pietro a Majella Ceiling Paintings
Christ and the Canaanite Woman is a c. 1650 oil on canvas painting by Mattia Preti. [1] It and another work by Preti showing Christ with a single woman (Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery) were both recorded as being in the Certosa di San Martino in Naples in 1806, but were split up the following year when Adultery was acquired by the Real Museo Borbonico and Canaanite passed to the church ...
Saint John the Baptist Wearing the Red Tabard of the Order of Saint John is an oil painting on canvas by the Italian painter Mattia Preti, from 1671. The painting has the dimensions of 98 × 78 centimeters. It is in the collection of MUŻA in Valletta, Malta. [1]
Saint George on Horseback is an oil painting by Mattia Preti painted in 1658. It is the altarpiece of the Chapel of the Langue of Aragon in St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta. The painting was Preti's first work in Malta, and it is regarded as one of his masterpieces and one of the best examples of Neapolitan Baroque art.
It and another work by Preti showing Christ with a single woman (Christ and the Canaanite Woman) were both recorded as being in the Certosa di San Martino in Naples in 1806, but were split up the following year when Adultery was acquired by the Real Museo Borbonico and Canaanite passed to the church of Sant'Efremo Nuovo. [2]
The oval painting depicts a half-bust of the eremitic early Christian monk St Anthony Abbot. He is reading a book, and on his shoulder leans his staff with a bell. The elderly man is dressed in a sober dark cloak with hood, setting apart his white beard. The painting has also been described as possibly depicting St Francis of Paola.