Transforming faith into spiritual energy
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...
Source: timesofmalta.com