Artist and art historian Mark Sagona gave a public lecture entitled Pietro Paolo Azzopardi’s St George: its artistic importance in early 19th-century Malta at Il-Ħaġar Heart of Gozo museum in Victoria. The lecture was organised on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of the creation of the statue of the saint by Maltese sculptor Pietro Paolo Azzopardi (1791-1875) for St George’s parish church, Victoria. Sagona discussed the statue’s artistic significance within its local and international contexts, with reference to other works by Azzopardi and his contemporaries. He also placed the work within the context of the Maltese islands’ changing aesthetic taste.