The International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta has just published the third volume, number 2 [2022] edition of 'The Journal of Baroque Studies'. This edition of the academic journal, edited by Professor Frans Ciappara and produced and illustrated by Dr Hermann Bonnici, contains twelve academic contributions and a section on book reviews.
The articles in this edition include:
- La Fondazione dei Carmelitani Scalzi a Malta -Un Primo Approfondimento alla Luce di Alcuni Documenti Archivistici by Dr Axel Alt of the Pontificia Facoltà Teresianum in Rome
- Riconsiderando Medoro Angelino (Roma, 1560 ca. - Siviglia, 1633): le tre opere di Santiago del Cile by Dr Francesco De Nicolo of the Universidad de Granada
- Marks of Modernity: The Counter-Reformation as a Response to the Emerging Modern Age by Dr Amanda M. Dutton
- Count Georg Albrecht I of Erbach and Malta in 1617 – a story of facts, half-truth and missing information by Dr Thomas Freller of the University of Applied Sciences in Aalen, Germany
- Realism and Empathy: The Ta’ Ä ieżu Crucifix as a Visual Manifestation of Post-Tridentine Culture by Christian Attard
- Baroque Music in Catholic Churches by Maestro Abraham D’Amato; The unique Late Baroque Church of Santa Maria dell’Itria in Ragusa, Sicily by Professor Denis De Lucca, director of the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta
- The Development of the Iconography of the Holy Week: Processional Statues in Malta and Gozo by Joseph F. Grima; Brevi Note Storiche su Innocenzo XII by Professor Nicola Montesano, director of the Istituto Universitario SSML of Basilicata;
- Re-evaluating Cupid and Pan: The Story of Eros and the Satyr in the Farnese Gallery by Dr Esthy Kravitz-Lurie of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel who is responsible for a course on Mythology, Love and Poetry in the Paintings of the Baroque at the Department of the Arts at the above-mentioned university and is also a member of Renaissance Society of America (RSA)
- The Thing of the World I Love Most’- Samuel Pepys, the Diary and Domestic Music-Making in Restoration England by PhD candidate Charmaine Falzon and a contribution about The antithesis of Baroque - the vernacular architecture of the Mediterranean islands by Professor Borut Juvanec of the Institute of Vernacular Architecture in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
This edition of the Journal for Baroque Studies - which also contains reviews of the two books Cities, Harbours and Artefacts: Transformations of an Early Modern Landscape edited by Maroma Camilleri, Maroma and Mevrick Spiteri, and published by Malta Libraries, Malta, 2021 and Hospitaller Malta and the Mediterranean Economy in the Sixteenth Century authored by Joan Abela and published by Boydell Press in 2018 – can be obtained from leading book-sellers in Malta and from the administrative office of The International institute for Baroque Studies in Room 308, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of Malta.
Since 2019, the Journal for Baroque Studies has been inserted in the list of publications compiled by ANVUR - Agenzia Nazionale di Valutazione del Sistema Universitario e della Ricerca which is the Italian National Agency - based on Aeres in France and the Research Excellence Framework (REF) in the United Kingdom - responsible for the evaluation of the quality of academic research in 95 universities, 21 research institutes, and 17 inter-university consortia.
