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Lorenzo Gafa (1638-1703) was a noted Maltese baroque architect.

Lorenzo Gafà. Lorenzo Gafa (1638-1703) was a noted Maltese baroque architect. Born in Vittoriosa (Birgu), Gafà began his working life as a stone carver and his brother was the renowned sculptor Melchiorre.

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Lorenzo Gafa (1638-1703) was a noted Maltese baroque architect.

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  1. Lorenzo Gafà Lorenzo Gafa (1638-1703) was a noted Maltese baroque architect. Born in Vittoriosa (Birgu), Gafà began his working life as a stone carver and his brother was the renowned sculptor Melchiorre. He worked on the church of St Paul, Sarria church in Floriana in 1676 and the Carmelite church, in Mdina (1668-1672) and had worked on various structures in Valletta by 1680. In Mdina where he undertook much work.

  2. Sculpture of Lorenzo Gafa, possibly by his brother;

  3. In the early 1660s he worked on the reredos of the main altar in the church of Sta Scolastica. • In the Dominican church of the Annunciation, both in his native town of Vittoriosa.

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