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ROTTJER, Anibal AtilioBiblio.com

Vida Del Procer Argentino Brigadier General Don Juan Manuel De Rosas

Scicluna, Sir Hannibal P; Sir Harry C Luke introBiblio.com

THE CHURCH OF ST. JOHN IN VALLETTA

1955510872Casa M. Danesi 1955. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. NEAR FINE. 'With a brief History of the Order of St. John from its Inception to the present Day.' SIGNED by the author on the limitation page copy number 457 of an edition limited to 2000 copies. liii 428pp. 2 foldout plans 50 tipped-in Color plates and 301 b/w plates on about 100 pages. Large 4to 12.5' x 8.75' sewn binding in red cloth gilt stamped spine lettering white stamped Maltese cross to front cover. Spine lightly bumped at tail otherwise exceedingly clean and fresh; with the scarce dust jacket showing some wear and dampstain to spine now wrapped in mylar. 'Exhaustive architectural monographs are few and seldom provided with adequate illustrations. This sumptuous volume is then a rarity describing not only the fabric of Malta's notable Co-Cathedral but also photographing every monument and giving the text of every inscription. This quality of completeness deserves the highest praise. A short introduction on the Order of Knights Hospitaller puts the church in its historical background and its architecture is then described by Mr. Raymond Judge and from notes by Dr. Quentin Hughes who regards the building in spite of its High Renaissance style and decora-tion as essentially an example of the Early Baroque based on the churches of the Counter Reformation and especially on the Ges. This brand new was seen by the Maltese architect Gerolamo Cassar who visited Rome in 56g and its lessons incarporated by him in St. John built in 1573-7. But the most outstanding feature is the slightly finted vault possibly founded on precedents in Khodes or Sicily though it seems to have a more immediate connexion with Juan de Herrera's archway in the front of Valladolid Cathedral a feature hitherto regarded as faulty construction: an explanation not tenable at Malta. Every chapel and each work of art is described and the abundant and well-produced colour and half-tone plates provide a most thorough record of the building its contents and its rich colour-decoration. It is devoutly to be wished that other great monuments of art will find historiographers as learned as patient and as munificent.' John H. Harvey review in Antiquaries Journal. Casa M. Danesi hardcover

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