Mattia Preti’s Martyrdom of St Lawrence

Detail showing cleaning tests

Detail showing the RHS section of the lunette during cleaning

Detail showing the lunette during cleaning

Detail showing the painting during cleaning

Detail showing a number of cleaning tests

Detail of the central part of the painting during cleaning

Detail showing of the tormentors during conservation and restoration

Detail of a cleaning test

Detail of onlookers after conservation and restoration

Detail of the painting during the removal of grime and varnish

Detail showing one of the tormentors and onlookers after conservation and restoration

Detail showing Emperor Valerian together with a group of onlookers during restoration and conservation

Detail of a soldier in armour after conservation and restoration

Detail of a cleaning test

Detail of an onlooker after conservation and restoration

Detail showing the extense of of damage on the central part of the lunette before conservation and restoration

The lunette depicting the martyrdom of St Lawrence after conservation and restoration

Detail showing a one of the tormentors during conservation and restoration

Detail showing an onlooker after conservation and restoration

Detail showing a cleaning test

Detail showing the tormentor and St Lawrence after conservation and restoration

Detail of a tormentor's face during conservation and restoration

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Detail of a tormentor during conservation and restoration

Detail of a cleaning test

Detail of a cleaning test

Detail of a cleaning test

Detail of a cleaning test

Image 9. St Lawrence restored

A full image of the lunette depicting the martyrdom of St Lawrence after conservation and restoration

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Category

Artist

Period

Medium

Location

Paintings

Mattia Preti

1660s

Oil on Canvas

Chapel of Aragon, Catalonia and Navarre, St John’s Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta

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