/library/oar/handle/123456789/39604 Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:10:37 GMT 2025-12-31T23:10:37Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/40479 Title: New website for the International Institute for Baroque Studies Abstract: The International Institute for Baroque Studies has launched its new website on the University of Malta portal. The new website, which can be accessed at www.um.edu.mt/iibs contains detailed information about the Institute aims and objectives, its members of staff as well as an overview of its past and on-going projects, programmes and courses. Description: This document contains additional information about a series of short evening courses designed to introduce participants to the wealth of the Baroque heritage of mankind and its conservation (p. 24). Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/40479 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/40478 Title: Baroque Routes Newsletter - Issue 10 Abstract: Contents: Foreword… 3/ Post-graduate Seminar - Life, Society and Culture in the Baroque Age… 4/ Public Lecture - Baroque Architecture of Sicily… 4/ Valmontone Conference on Mattia Preti… 5/ Una Cena Barocca… 6/ Scale Models and the Coastal Fortifications of Malta by Stephen C. Spiteri… 8/ The Largely Unsung History of Malta’s Bells by Noel Grima… 14/ Public Lectures - Outreach Programme… 18/ Books - Rural Life in a Maltese Eighteenth-Century Village by Frans Ciappara… 20/ Books - A Timeless Gentleman:Festschrift in Honour of Maurice De Giorgio… 22/ International Conference - The Visual Power of Military Architecture in the Baroque Age… 23 Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/40478 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/40477 Title: The passport to eternal life Abstract: “Everyone will admit that the art of dying well is the most important of all the arts,” writes St Robert Bellarmine in the preface to his De Arte Bene Moriendi, published in the second decade of the 17th century. Yet, how is a good death ensured? What are the necessary steps and measures that, taken during one’s lifetime, assist the soul’s safe passage to heaven? What are the ways, if any, that ascertain as short a stay as possible in the flames of purgatory? These are a few of the questions explored by Frans Ciappara, from the University of Malta’s International Institute of Baroque Studies, during a well-attended public lecture delivered at the Inquisitor’s Palace in Vittoriosa, which was introduced by the director of the Institute, Denis De Lucca. Description: This article first appeared in The Sunday Times of Malta on 27 January 2013. The event was organised by the International Institute of Baroque Studies at the University of Malta in collaboration with Heritage Malta. The lecture was accompanied by David Ellul who provided short musical interludes on the violoncello, consisting of excerpts by Vivaldi, Schubert and Grieg related to the theme. Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/40477 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/40476 Title: Malta – the splendour of its Baroque architecture Abstract: Architectural history can be one of the most boring or most exciting subjects to talk about. Architects and their buildings have always been inevitably intertwined with ideas about what is beautiful and what is not. Besides, the subject has also been intertwined with unfolding events in the political, religious, intellectual, technological and cultural fields. A stimulating talk on architectural history, therefore, very much depends on the nature of the visual support that is provided and on the presentation of the subject in its wider context. It is precisely my intention to do this in this lecture about the splendour of Malta’s Baroque architectural heritage. I sincerely hope that my audience will not regret having come to hear what I have to say! Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/40476 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z