# Three Baroque masterpieces rise again: Għaxaq parish church unveils its newly-conserved altarpieces **GĦAXAQ, MALTA** – The air inside the parish church of the Assumption of Our Lady was thick with incense and anticipation on Sunday morning as Rev. Archpriest Joe Zammit pulled back the burgundy velvet curtain on something no villager had seen in…
A centuries-old canvas that survived Napoleonic plunder, damp limestone walls and even a misguided 1970s varnish has been returned to its rightful home in the heart of Gozo, and the village of Żebbuġ greeted it like a long-lost relative. On Sunday, after a 14-month conservation campaign financed entirely by local donations, the 1768 oil painting…
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…
Gudja’s centuries-old parish church will throw open its doors this Sunday for a moment that locals have awaited for close to three years: the unveiling of the newly restored titular painting of the Assumption of Our Lady. The 10 a.m. inauguration Mass, celebrated by Archbishop Charles Scicluna, will be followed by a public viewing and…
