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Il-Ħaġar museum in Pjazza San Ġorġ, Victoria, will be welcoming visitors again from April 26. To satisfy the visitors’ requests, it has been decided to ex

Gozitan artist Aaron Formosa is holding a sacred art exhibition, Twilights, at Ħaġar Museum in Victoria. The theme of the exhibition is human existence in the light of Christ – the spiritual light which enlightens the human condition and makes it meaningful. Through the collection, the artist intends to offer a new concept of sacred art; a personal interpretation of Biblical and religious narratives – an interpretation somewhat different from those with which we are normally acquainted in local churches. In the collection, one finds paintings depicting the Nativity of Christ, Christ rai...

Sacred art in Malta has experienced difficulty in ridding itself of the shackles of the Baroque era as far as Church commissions are concerned as the cumbersome shadows of Caravaggio and Mattia Preti conditioned its development. In the latter half of the 20th century, Emvin Cremona managed to achieve a balance between the acceptably modern and a monumental classicism easily understood by the churchgoers and that fitted within ecclesiastical parameters. The Assumption of the Virgin Anton Inglott’s Death of St Joseph for Msida parish church and Giorgio Preca’s famous crucifixion were except...

Il-Ħaġar Museum is organising a number of cultural events to mark the eighth anniversary of the museum’s opening and the third anniversary of the demise o