Giuseppe Calì

Giuseppe Calì (Valletta, August 14, 1846 - Valletta, March 1, 1930) was a Maltese painter, born of Neapolitan parents and educated at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Naples under Giuseppe Mancinelli . He was a prolific artist: almost every church of any consequence in Malta boasts a work of his, and according to one of his grandsons, was nicknamed ix-xitan tal-pinzell ("the Devil with the brush"). He was commemorated by the Republic of Malta with a series of four postage stamps in 1996, and a coin in 2004. His son Ramiro Calì was also a painter.

Works

• Death of Dragut (oil on canvas, 1867), widely considered his best work, now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
• St Jerome and St Lawrence altarpieces (oil on canvas, 1881), Sacro Cuor parish church, Sliema.
• Virgin of the Rosary (his first work), and Prophets, both in the parish church of Mosta.
• St. Dominic altarpiece, parish church of Porto Salvo, Valletta
• portraits of the merchant Agostino Cassar Torregini and of Judge Carbone
• Tre Rome and a Nativity, Luqa parish church
• Apotheosis of St. Francis, church of S. Francesco, Valletta.

External link

• Postage stamps honoring Calì, depicting some of his work.