Moonlit Miracle: Long-Lost Querio Masterpiece Unearthed in Valletta Archbishop’s Palace
Hidden behind a stack of dusty ledgers in the sacristy of the Archbishop’s Palace in Valletta, a rolled canvas no wider than a church candle has sent ripples of excitement through Malta’s art world. Signed boldly in the bottom-right corner “Sylvester Querius fecit 1709”, the small oil painting—a luminous Nativity bathed in Mediterranean moonlight—has just…