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Preca, Giorgio
(b Valletta, Malta, 1909; d Rome, 1984). Maltese painter. He studied in Malta at the Government School of Art, and in Rome at the Regia Accademia di Belle Arti and the British Academy, where he frequented the life classes. The outbreak of World War II in 1939 forced his return to Malta, where his most important work is the large altarpiece of the Crucifixion (1946/7; Zejtun, Tal Hniena church), which caused much controversy, on account of its highly original iconography. It was in many ways the first important modernist painting in Malta. In 1946 Preca returned to Rome, where he found employment as an art teacher in the Liceo Artistico. His expressionistic and abstract paintings attracted favourable attention, and in 1956 he was invited to exhibit with Georges Rouault. This was followed in 1966 by a major one-man exhibition.
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