'Study for the ‘Plague Series’: Ripa’s Peste' by Clint Calleja
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- Ink pen on paper
- 20cm by 20cm artwork size
- 30cm by 30cm mounted
- 33cm by 33cm framed
- 2021
- signed and dated on the front
Clint Calleja| Malta @calleja.clint
Artist participating in 20 x 20 Exhibition: Edition 2
Clint Calleja is currently a senior lecturer in Fine Arts at MCAST Institute for the
Creative Arts. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in History of Art, a
Master’s Degree in Baroque Studies and a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts. His art
works mostly explore the subject of individual and popular memory where
current events are linked with similar events from the past.
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Cesare Ripa’s book ‘Iconologia’ first published in 1593, was the inspiration for
this drawing. In this text Ripa gave a detailed literary description of the
personification of plague. The work was done following carefully what Ripa
wrote.