Matteo Pérez
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Matteo Pérez de Alesio was an Italian painter of devotional, historical and maritime subjects during the Mannerist period. He was also known as Matteo da Lecce by virtue of his hometown of Lecce. He s
The Painter Matteo da Lecce (attributed to Palma il Giovane, 1568)
St John's Co-Cathedral
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St John's Co-Cathedral is a Catholic co-cathedral in Valletta, Malta, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. It was built by the Order of St. John between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned by Gran
Matteo Pérez
…the Queen's House, Greenwich, London. Among his other works in Malta there is the Baptism of Christ which was originally the titular painting of the St. John's Co-Cathedral. He migrated to Spain in 1583. He completed a monumental fresco, in 1584, in the cathedral of Seville, representing a giant St. Christopher carrying…
Façade of St John's Co-Cathedral in 2020
The co-cathedral in the 1870s
The façade of St. John's Co-Cathedral being restored in 2014
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