Tarxien paintings by Pietro Gagliardi and Francesco Zahra restored
Detail from the cleaning procedure that brought out again the chromatics of Francesco Zahra’s Our Lady of the Rosary.
Tarxien parish church, dedicated to the Annunciation of the Virgin, was recently reunited with three of its paintings that were fully conserved and restored by PrevArti Co. Ltd. These include Francesco Zahra’s (1710-1773) work depicting The Virgin of the Rosary with Saints Dominic and Catherine of Siena, painted in 1770, and Pietro Gagliardi’s (1809-1890) The...