Wood floats: Melchiorre Cafà’s St. Paul
Mon 30 Nov · G08 Sir David Davies Lecture Theatre · WC1E
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At the end of the 1650s, Melchiorre Cafà was newly settled in Rome, where he was quickly becoming acculturated to the sculptural idiom. At this early moment in his Roman career, he turned conceptually toward home. In carving a wooden St. Paul for his native Malta, the sculptor took up a foundational story of the island: its break from a pagan past to a Christian present. Significantly, the sculpture travelled in reverse along the route to Rome Paul had taken some 1,600 years earlier, crossing the sea to the Italian peninsula. Cafà’s St.
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