바로크의 거장 마티아 프레티(1613-1699)를 만나보세요! 이탈리아와 몰타 전역에 남겨진 그의 극적인 프레스코화, 강렬한 감정, 그리고 빛과 그림자를 다루는 탁월한 기교를 탐험해 보세요.
Saint John the Baptist is shown seated in the wilderness exhorting the viewer to repentance, his right hand pointing heavenwards, his skin tanned through years in the desert. The lamb stands for Christ, the "lamb of God."One of the protagonists of Baroque painting, Preti worked in Rome, Modena, and Naples before moving to Malta, where he was elevated to knighthood and spent the rest of his career. The expressive intensity and boldly sculptural conception of the Saint John link it with Preti"s frescoes in the church of S. Biagio in Modena, carried out in 1651–52; there are echoes of the most vigorous manner of Domenichino and Guercino.