Prof Keith Sciberras

Prof Keith Sciberras

Associate Professor, History of Arts

Prof. Keith Sciberras is Head of the Department of History of Art within the Department of History of Art, University of Malta. Received as an Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow (2005) in the Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2005, he was elected Trustee of the Association of Art Historians (AAH), London in 2012.

Professor Sciberras has published extensively on the subject of Caravaggio, Roman Baroque sculpture, and Italian Baroque painting and has contributed to numerous international research projects and exhibitions.

Research interest: Baroque Art

Caravaggio: Rediscovering the Lost Years

Selected Publications:

  • ‘Francesco Noletti (c.1611-1654) and a conclusion for proposing his oeuvre’ in P. di Loreto (ed.), Una Vita per la Storia dell’Arte. Scritti in memoria di Maurizio Marini, Foligno, 2015
  • ‘Alessandro Algardi’s Christ the Saviour’ in Carolyn Miner (ed.), The Eternal Baroque, Silvana Ed. 2015Co-Editor (with Vittorio Sgarbi), Il Cavalier Calabrese – Mattia Preti tra Caravaggio e Luca Giordano, Silvana Ed. 2013 (co-editor, author of two essays, and a number of catalogue entries)
  • Mattia Preti: The Triumphant Manner, Midsea Books ltd, 2012
  • Roman Baroque Sculpture for the Knights of Malta, 2nd Ed., Midsea Books Ltd, 2012
  • Francesco Zahra 1710-1773, Midsea Books Ltd,  2010
  • ‘Roma Fuori Roma, Roman Baroque Sculpture for the Knights of Malta’, in Stefania Macioce Ed., I Cavalieri di Malta, Caravaggio, e l’Arte nel cammino dei Secoli, Universita La Sapienza, Rome,  2010
  • ‘The Brush for the Cross, The Cross for the Brush: Mattia Preti, Knight of Malta’ in Stefania Macioce Ed., I Cavalieri di Malta, Caravaggio, e l’Arte nel cammino dei Secoli, Universita La Sapienza, Rome,  2010
  • Mattia Preti ripete se stesso, Centro Storico, Catania, 2010
  • ‘Three Paintings by Francesco Noletti at the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum’, in Bulletin 08, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2010
  • Baroque Painting in Malta, Midsea Books, 2009
  • ‘Caravaggio, the Confraternità della Misericordia, and the original context of the Oratory of the Decollato in Valletta’ in The Burlington Magazine CXLIX, November 2007
  • ‘Caravaggio and Realism in Malta’ in Caravaggio and Paintings of Realism in Malta, Foundation of St John’s Co-Cathedral, 2007
  • ‘Melchiorre Cafà – Maltese Genius of the Roman Baroque’ in K. Sciberras (ed.), Melchiorre Cafa, Midsea Books, 2006
  • (with David Stone), Caravaggio: Art, Knighthood and Malta, Midsea Books, 2006