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Following the restoration of Mattia Preti’s titular painting of the Immaculate Conception and of the St Sebastian, St Roque, at the Sarria church in Floriana, was Preti’s third painting to be given a new lease of life thanks to Din l-Art Helwa’s project.

The painting was in a perilous state of decay and its restoration was made possible through an MSV Life sponsorship.

Timed to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Preti’s birth, Din l-Art Helwa in 2013 undertook to carry out the restoration of the four paintings that are, in one way or another, connected with the plague.

The restoration was entrusted to Giuseppe Mantella Restauri and has been carried out with the support of the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage.

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