Category:Giuseppe Calì

Giuseppe Calì 

Maltese painter (1846-1930)
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Date of birth	14 August 1846 Valletta
Date of death	1 March 1930 Valletta
Place of burial	Addolorata Cemetery (Div. Lvant H-A-8)
Country of citizenship	Crown Colony of Malta
Educated at	Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli
Occupation	painter postage stamp designer
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"It was not before the last quarter of the century that a really noteworthy painter was to emerge in the person of GIUSEPPE CALI (1846-1930) who studied in Naples under Mancinelli, being later drawn towards the great Domenico Morelli (1826-1901), whose influence soon made itself felt in the young artist's work. During his long and hard-working life Cali produced altarpieces, portraits, landscapes and genre pictures of every kind until there was hardly a church or moderately affluent home in the Island but could boast one of his canvases. One of his first altarpieces was the painting of St. Jerome (1881) in the Church of the Sacred Heart, Sliema, which is still generally considered his masterpiece. Of a later period are the large altarpieces and the paintings in the ceiling of St. Dominic's, Valletta, whilst representative of his last period is "The Apotheosis of St. Francis", one of his largest works, and the charming "Death Of the Saint" (1907) in the Church of the Friars Minor in Valletta. Of his portraits, perhaps the most striking are those of the Zammit-Clapp family, now in Valletta Museum, and that of Sir Adrian Dingli, at the Exchange; whilst "Le Tre Rome" (1911) is among the most important of his larger historical compositions. There is no doubt that Cali's forte was Sacred Art: this trend, together with his amazing flair for composition, even in the cramped and irregularly shaped panels of certain church ceilings, enabled him to produce an incredible number of outstanding works which place him securely in the front rank of Maltese artists." Edward Sammut, Art in Malta (1953), p.92