Treasures of Malta, No 96, Vol XXXII, No 3, Summer 2026

Description

Editorial 

Giovanni Bonello

Faces of the ‘Other’: Slavery, Orientalism, and Visual Culture in Baroque Malta 

Rebecca Delia

Fra’ Giorgio Giuseppe Valperga di Masino (1732–1813): A Knight in a Technical Role in the Service of the Order of St John

Anna Bertolino

Edwin Augustus Porcher (1824–1878): Watercolours of Malta 

Emanuel Chetcuti

Giuseppe Fenech: The Cottonera Photographer Time and History Forgot

Charles Paul Azzopardi

In Memoriam: Alaine Apap Bologna (1948–2026)

Kenneth Zammit Tabona

My Favourite Object

David Fabri

An Arabic Artefact and the Circulation of Antiquarian Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Malta

Martin Micallef

The Portrait of Peter III of Portugal (1717–1786) at Casa Manresa, Floriana

Michael Pace Ross and Amy Sciberras

The Cover

Theresa Vella

Becoming Concetta Brincat

Adrian Grima

Bookshelf (Phase and Occasion. Art & Poetry in Malta. Norbert Francis Attard)

Kathleen Vella

Cultural Review

Cecilia Xuereb

Calendar Highlights

(compiled by) Antonia Critien