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Treasures of Malta,  Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti It had to be something like the latest issue of Treasures of Malta to provide a most welcome modi­cum of cheer in these bleak times, not least with its striking cover of a detail from a 16th-century frescoed map of Malta hailing the 1565 victory over the Ottomans. It lies in the Hall of Maps at the Vatican, one among several showing the lands over which the pope held authority. In 1732, Louis XV gifted Grand Master Manoel de Vilhena with a fine portrait of himself by Jean Baptiste van Loo. Van Loo took over the commission from the famous por...

The Addolorata Cemetery  photography by Charles Paul Azzopardi, Midsea Books, 2020 The Addolorata Cemetery must be our most visible cemetery. Nobody who drives in the roads that lead to the ‘south’ of the island can fail to see Emmanuele Luigi Galizia’s iconic neo-Gothic church proudly towering over what is for us a rare stretch of mature trees and greenery. In spite of its sombre atmosphere, the whole enclave is a magnificent architectural achieve­ment, not overlooking the scores of artistic monuments erected within to record the famous and the not so famous. The Addolorata Cemetery ...