Hammer Art History Lecture by Shawon Kinew, “St. Paul Among the Snakes: A Maltese Artist Goes Home, c. 1660”
Royce 314 10745 Dickson Ct, Los Angeles, CAAbstract: At the end of the 1650s, Melchiorre Cafà, a Maltese sculptor, was newly established in Rome. Rome was the most significant site for sculptural production in Europe at that time. It was also a Golden Age of sculpture as artists vied for papal commissions and pushed the limits of their medium. They transformed hard...