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Description: | Portrait of Alof de Wignacourt, 54th Grand Master of the Order of St John, 1601-22. This painting is a copy of the head of a full-length portrait of Wignacourt by Cassarino, previously in the Grand Masters Palace and now in the National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta. He is remembered as a patron of Caravaggio and for the construction of an aqueduct to bring water from the plateau above Rabat to Valletta. Many successful naval operations against the Turks were mounted during his period as Grand Master; expeditions against Patras, Lepanto in the Morea, Lango in Rhodes, Liazzo, and Corinth, resulting in much prize money and infuriating Mahomet III, the then Sultan of Constantinople. | Subjects: | portrait (Alof de Wignacourt) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Maltese School Æ Attributed to after Cassarino (Italian artist, active 17th century) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8596... | Go to resource |
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