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The National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta

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Set in a complementing historic building, the museum presents a multifaceted overview of art and artistic expression in Malta from the Late Medieval period to the contemporary. The palace was officially inaugurated as the National Museum of Fine Arts in 1974 and has since then been Malta’s most important museum for the arts. Highlights from the collection on display include paintings by leading local and internationally acclaimed artists, precious Maltese silverware, statuary in marble bronze and wood, fine furniture items and splendid majolica pieces.

Andrea Vicentino

(c.1542-1617) The Raising of

Lazarus

Domenico Carpinoni (1566 – 1658)Mary Magdalene

Palma Jacopo il Giovane (Italian painter, ca. 1548 - 1628) The Walls of Jericho

Palma Jacopo il Giovane (Italian painter, ca. 1548 - 1628) David vencedor de Goliat, Ca. 1592

Mathias Stom (c.1600-50) Lamentation

over the Dead Abel

Mathias Stom (c.1600-50)

Death of Cato

Mathias Stom (c.1600-50)

Death of Catodetail

Mathias Stom (c.1600-50) The parable of the good Samaritan

Mathias Stom (c.1600-50) The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

Mattia Preti (1613-1699) St John the Almoner

Mattia Preti (1613-1699) St John the Almoner

Valentin de Boulogne, known as Le Valentin (1591-1632) Judith and Holofernes

Valentin de Boulogne, known as Le Valentin (1591-

1632) Judith and Holofernes

Cesare Dies (1830-1889) Pilgrims kissing the foot of the bronze statue of St Peter in Rome

Travelers and Gamblers outside a Town

Italian Peasants outside a

Country Inn

Dirk Theodor Helmbiekar (1633-1696)

Louis Ducros (1748-1810) Strada Levoute, Valletta at the Grand Harbour

Michele Bellanti Side Street Mdina, 1719-1720

Louis Ducros (1748-1810) View of Grand Harbour

Thomas Lyde Hornbrook (1780-1850) Entrance to Grand Harbour in Storm

Gerolamo (Girolamo) Gianni (1837-1895) Marsamxett Harbour

Thomas Lyde Hornbrook (1780-

1850) Entrance to Grand

Harbour in Storm

Giovanni Schranz (1794-1882) Senglea and French Creek

Jose Montenegro Capel (1856-1929) Patio de las Munecas at the Alcazar, Seville

Giovanni Schranz (1794-1882) H.M.S. Canopus in Grand Harbour

H.M.S. Canopus was the former French ship-of-the-line Benjamin Franklin, captured at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. It lies at anchor in the Grand Harbour of Malta, with Fort Saint Angelo and Senglea acting as a backdrop. Giovanni Schranz (1794-1882)

H.M.S. Canopus in Grand Harbour

Anton Schranz (1769-1839) View of Grand

Harbour

Unknown, 17th century Neapolitan school Vessels Anchored in a Strait

Isaac de Moucheron (1667 – 1744) Landscape with Figures

Circle of Jan Van Scorel (1495-1562) Portrait of a lady

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Circle of Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen (1498-1574) The penitent Magdalene

Willem Key (c.1515-1617) Portrait of an Illuminator of Books

Willem Claeszoon Heda (1594-1680) Still life with Delft bowl and walnuts

Gian Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804)St Margaret of Cortona (detail)

Pieter Coecke van Aelst (c.1502-1558) The suicide of Lucretia

Unknown French Artist 17th century, St Sebastian cared by the Holy Women

Francesco Zahra (1710-1773)

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regarded as a spectacular

‘show-piece’ in the collection of the Palace

Armoury

Antoine de Favray (1706-1798) Portrait of Maria Amalia Grognet

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Antoine de Favray(1706-1798) The visit

Lazzaro Pisani (1854-1932) The Death of Abel

Lazzaro Pisani (1854-1932)

The Death of Abel

Gianni Vella (Maltese, 1885- 1977) Interior view of St. John's Co-Cathedral (Valletta)

Robert Caruana Dingli (1881-1940) Alpine Landscape

Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902) The Iceberg

Hubert Robert (1732-1808) Capriccio

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Dragut (also called Turgut Reis), Barbary pirate and Ottoman admiral (1514-1565), operating largely along the Barbary coast. Dragut was a protege of Barbarossa (Khayr ed-Din). He was known as a cruel and brutal opponent, and feared among many Christians. His line was closer to the sultan of Constantinople than the local North Africans.His home town would be named after him, Turgutreis. Dragut joins the Ottoman forces in an attack on Malta and June 23 1565 is killed in battle on the ramparts of Fort Saint Elmo. Dragut's body is brought to Tripoli, and buried in the mosque named after him.

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