Description

p. 2

Editorial
Giovanni Bonello

p.10

A Chance Encounter with Malta in 1817: Uncharted Reflections of a Group of Artists, Botanists, and Naturalists

Thomas Freller recounts the largely ignored descriptions of one of the most expert groups ever to visit nineteenth-century Malta

p. 24
A Story of Veneration and Preservation: The Seventeenth-Century Marian Paintings of the Old Parish Church of Mqabba

Having lost their original setting, Jonathan Farrugia traces the story of the still-surviving Marian altarpieces preserved at the Mqabba parish church, and adds a sixth painting, previously assumed lost, now held in a private collection

 p. 34

The Crucifixion of Christ on the Golgotha: A Salvage Project

Nadette Xuereb and Amy Sciberras

p. 42

The Lazzaretto Cemetery of St George (‘Tal-Ħofra’) on Manoel Island: A Contextual Corpus of its Recorded Epitaphs

Leafing through his notes and transcriptions drawn up for a report over five decades ago, Mario Buhagiar brings to life the socio-political profiles of individuals buried long ago in a quarantine cemetery

p. 55

Antonio Bosio (1575–1629): Unearthing a Life

Chiara Cecalupo

p. 62

From Our Digitisation Studio

Anna Cremona

p. 70

She Danced One Evening in Late Spring…: Longing: Lyrical Poem (1978) as a Choreographic Swansong for Nathalie Poutiatine

Kathrina Farrugia-Kriel unpacks a rare and unique 8mm film as a final testament to the uncontested presence of Malta’s matriarch of the art of ballet

p. 77

The Cover

p. 78

My Favourite Object

Charles Paul Azzopardi

p. 82

Bookshelf

More Histories II: Blaming it on Eve – review by Louis Scerri

The Brush of the Evangelist: Painting attributed to St Luke in Malta – review by Christian Attard

p. 86

Cultural Review

Cecilia Xuereb

88

Calendar Highlights

Antonia Critien