St. John's Co-Cathedral
Baroque conventual church of gilded carved stone walls under a vast painted vault of the Baptist's life.
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This guide to St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta follows Maria de Dominici, a goldsmith's daughter from Birgu who would rather draw than keep house, and the painter-knight Mattia Preti, who was at work on the vault above you in the sixteen-sixties. It touches on how that ceiling was actually painted, the carved walls around it, and a teenage pupil's place in the workshop. Best heard standing in the nave with your head tilted back.
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