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Spring at MUŻA
This spring, three different spaces play host to four overlapping exhibitions in MUŻA’s jam-packed 2022 creative calendar. Lithography...
Warren J Bugeja
Mar 24, 20223 min read
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From Rome with Love
An avant-garde spirit and early exponent of modern art, Giorgio Preca was born in Malta in 1909 but lived a great deal of his life in...
Warren J Bugeja
Dec 27, 20214 min read
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A Legacy Acknowledged
Largely unknown outside art circles, Giorgio Preca is widely considered to be one of the foremost pioneers of Maltese modern art. His...
Warren J Bugeja
Dec 1, 20213 min read
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Nature without humans, humans without nature
“La Luz no absuelve ni condena, no es justa ni es injusta” − light does not absolve or condemn, nor is it just or unjust, Mexican...
Warren J Bugeja
Sep 9, 20214 min read
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Pursed Lips for eternity: If these Portraits could talk
There is more than meets the eyes behind two Renaissance portraits that greet visitors to ‘Masterpieces at MUŻA,’ the remarkable must-see...
Warren J Bugeja
Sep 9, 20213 min read
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Out of the Shadows: Masterpieces at MUŻA
In the top left-hand corner of an otherwise intensely illuminated Renaissance painting, a brooding St Joseph occupies a shadowed arcade....
Warren J Bugeja
Jul 30, 20213 min read
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A Tragedy Foretold
In a large, placid Renaissance painting, an infant Jesus holds a seemingly innocuous early-spider-orchid in his left hand. The serene and...
Warren J Bugeja
Jul 28, 20213 min read
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Back in the Limelight
After years of waiting patiently in the silent vaults of a Geneva storage facility, 13 old master paintings will once again fulfil the...
Warren J Bugeja
Jun 26, 20213 min read
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Guido Reni’s masterpiece holidays in Italy
Guido Reni’s painting of the ‘Risen Christ’ has been selected by the prestigious Uffizi Galleries to participate in a national exhibition...
Warren J Bugeja
Jun 14, 20212 min read
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Silence and Enlightenment: a residency in two colours
“The figures are coming back to me!” Joyce Camilleri, excitedly reported back to a friend, following a few days of experimenting with the...
Warren J Bugeja
May 14, 20214 min read
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Mattia Preti: the Crown Jewels of the National Collection
MUŻA in Valletta has put together what is the most extensive public gathering of the famous Mattia Preti’s work. This area, one of five...
Warren J Bugeja
Mar 15, 20214 min read
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More at MUŻA
Two centuries apart, two break-through presentation pieces by two iconic artists, both soliciting future commissions, book-end five new...
Warren J Bugeja
Mar 10, 20213 min read
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