Gianni Vella – The Life And Works Of A Twentieth Century Maltese Artist By Christian Attard

This book aims at presenting the diverse facets of Gianni Vella’s artistic personality. It will present his Church paintings which, because of their very accessibility, remain his best-known, but it will also present Vella working in different conditions, when, cut loose from the understandable strictures of Church commissions, he let his guard down and manifested a more adventurous and experimental nature. More importantly, this study seeks to redress the virtual obscurity and misunderstanding that loom unjustly over his large corpus of works