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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
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
This Baroque painting evokes great power and a dynamic quality. Preti was influenced by the pathetic and dark art of Caravaggio. It has a theatrical character while the architectural elements serve as a backdrop. Sophonisbe is pale and disfigured, it seems to be showing the rapid effect of the poison she has just taken.
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 Nicholas (c. 1653) by Mattia Preti. Saint Nicholas is a c. 1653 painting by Mattia Preti, the first work he produced after moving to Naples and showing the three gold balls which are a traditional attribute of the saint. [1] It is now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in the same city. [1]
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]
It was painted to hang alongside a painting by the same artist depicting two other Greek philosophers, Heraclitus and Democritus, now found in the Pinacoteca Vaticana. The scholarly Plato is depicted dressed in a fine fur coat against a wall, displaying one of his texts, while Diogenes , in a drab cloak, holds a lamp in the darkness, and points ...
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.