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Commemorating the 150th anniversary since its creation

An artistic masterpiece by Maltese baroque artist Francesco Zahra (1710-1773) was brought back to its former glory thanks to a meticulous process of preservatio

The white Carrara marble sculpture portraying the Madonna holding the Christ Child that was situated behind the main altar of the Observant Franciscan church of Ta’ Ġieżu in Rabat has been conserved and restored at the Prevarti Ltd laboratory. The life-size Madonna and Child sculpture will be returned to the church this week, to be placed on the second altar on the north aisle where it was intended to be placed after the 1757 reconstruction of the Rabat church. After being removed from the church on September 15, and as part of the research and prior to the cleaning tests and conservation...

‘Gagini Madonna’ was commissioned in 1504, 26 years before the Knights of the Order of St John came to Malta Detail of existing pigment on the effigy. An Italian Renaissance white Carrara marble statue portraying the Madonna holding the Christ Child, which was commissioned 26 years before the arrival of the Knights of  the Order of St John in Malta and which was situated behind the main altar of the church of Santa Maria di Gesù (or Ta’ Ġieżu), in Rabat, has started undergoing much needed conservation and restoration. Known as the Gagini Madonna, the statue was commissioned on Febru...