Lecture on Caravaggio given at the Smithsonian

A lecture entitled "Caravaggio: The man and his art" was given at the Baird Auditorium, Natural History Museum of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC on Wednesday.

The event was organised by the Maltese embassy, in collaboration with the Malta Tourist Office in New York.

Fr Marius Zerafa, former Director of Museums, gave the lecture, tracing Caravaggio`s personal and artistic life from Rome to Malta, where he produced his most extraordinary works of art.

The lecture was followed by a reception hosted by ambassador and Mrs George Saliba. The event was also sponsored by the Toronto Office of the Bank of Valletta.

This was the third such event organised by the embassy of Malta in Washington in the past year, in a series of cultural events intended to promote Maltese culture in the United States.

In April 2001, a lecture on Megalithic Malta was given by Prof. Anthony Frendo, while in November a presentation on the Archives of the Order of Malta was made at the Library of Congress.