The conservation and restoration of a Caracciolo painting

The conservation and restoration of a Caracciolo painting

For centuries, the monumental painting The Holy Family on their Return from Egypt by the well-known Neapolitan artist, Giovanni Battista Caracciolo, hung quietly on one of the side altars of the Jesuits’ church in Valletta. Worshippers passed beneath it, visitors glanced up, while time began its slow, invisible work.Paintings, though silent and still, are shaped...