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    Melchiorre Cafà (1636–1667), born Melchiorre Gafà and also known as Caffà, Gafa, Gaffar or Gafar, was a Maltese Baroque sculptor. Cafà began a promising...
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  • in Taiwan Caffa, a 13th–15th-century Genoese colony Ćafa, Podgorica, Montenegro Melchiorre Cafà (1636–1667), Maltese Baroque sculptor Kafa (disambiguation)...
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  • Melchiorre may refer to: Melchiorre Cafà (1636–1667), Maltese sculptor Melchiore Cesarotti (1730–1808), Italian poet Melchiorre Delfico (caricaturist)...
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    Assumption in Victoria, Gozo. He was the younger brother of the sculptor Melchiorre Cafà. Gafà was born in 1639 in Birgu, to the stone carver Marco Gafà and...
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    sculptor, Melchiorre Cafà, was approved and begun. Cafà intended a large sculpture group in bronze depicting the Baptism of Christ. Following Cafà's tragic...
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    December 2008. Retrieved 31 March 2009. Medina, Ashley Marie (June 2015). Melchiorre Cafà and Camillo Pamphilj: The Art of Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Rome...
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    on the right. Martyrdom of Saint Eustace by Melchiorre Cafà is on the first altar on the left. Due to Cafà's sudden early death large parts of the relief...
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    Charity of St Thomas of Villanova is an etching by Melchiorre Cafà from the 1660s. The print's dimensions are 60 x 40 centimeters. It is in the collection...
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    Maltese sculptor Melchiorre Cafà is shaped similar to church facades. It creates an elaborate frame for the large marble relief, also by Cafà and finished...
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    also here. The sculpture St. Thomas of Villanova Distributing Alms by Melchiorre Cafà and completed by his mentor Ercole Ferrata is located in the St. Thomas...
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  • Casimir I of Nassau-Dietz, count of Nassau-Dietz (d. 1640) 1636 – Melchiorre Cafà, Maltese Baroque sculptor (baptised; d. 1667) 1655 – Antonio Molinari...
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  • Caffa may refer to: Caffa, former name of Feodosiya, a town in Crimea Melchiorre Cafà or Caffa (1636-1667), 17th century Maltese sculptor Caffe (disambiguation)...
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  • Lorenzo Gafà (1638–1703), Maltese architect, brother of Melchiorre Melchiorre Gafà or Melchiorre Cafà (1636–1667), Maltese sculptor, brother of Lorenzo Matt...
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    Maratta, 1664–1665, 1699, 1706–1713 Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi 1666 Melchiorre Cafà, 1667 (declined) Orfeo Boselli, 1667 Pietro del Pò Giacinto Brandi...
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     15, 35  The wooden titular statue of St Paul was carved in 1659 by Melchiorre Cafà, the brother of Lorenzo Gafà who designed the dome.: 42, 18  The statue...
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    Lorenzo Bernini (for example, his Blessed Ludovica Albertoni) and Melchiorre Cafà (Santa Rosa de Lima).[citation needed] The crypt is decorated in cosmatesque...
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  • Orsola Maddalena Caccia, father and daughter known for religious art Melchiorre Cafà, Maltese sculptor active in Rome; works include Martyrdom of Saint...
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  • pupils included the Florentine Giovanni Battista Foggini as well as Melchiorre Cafà, who acted as Ercole's studio assistant. In addition he trained Leonardo...
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    for the apse of Basilica of St Peter. The design was an invention of Melchiorre Cafà who made a wax model (but his participation in the project was cut...
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    entered the workshop of Ercole Ferrata where he became the only pupil of Melchiorre Cafà who also worked with Ferrata. Like Ferrata, Mazzuoli was frequently...
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  • the Valletta wooden statue of the Risen Christ (L-Irxoxt) is in the Melchiorre Cafà genre which, if correct, would date it to the second half of the 17th...
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    around him and found solutions by today less well known sculptors like Melchiorre Cafà and Domenico Guidi but also painters like Giovanni Battista Gaulli...
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    by the large marble relief of The Glory of St Catherine of Siena by Melchiorre Cafà from the 1660s. There are three recently discovered memorial plaques...
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  • known Maltese artist to have been admitted into the academy, after Melchiorre Cafà. While in Rome, he joined the bottega of the sculptor Pietro Papaleo...
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    service in a warm ambiance". Deal Today, 2014. Sciberras, Keith (2006), "Melchiorre Cafà", Midsea Books, for the History of Art Programme, University of Malta...
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    The count and countess sent a sculpture of St. Rose to the Vatican. Melchiorre Cafà was the sculptor. On the occasion of her beatification, her wooden...
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    with architects-designers, such as Gio Ponti, Guglielmo Ulrich (it), Melchiorre Bega (it), and artists such as Filippo De Pisis, Bruno Saetti, Gino Severini...
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