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Art lovers touring Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum, in Mdina for the first time will surely be pleasantly surprised to find an art studio in the palazzo&rs
An online lecture on a set of Olof Gollcher paintings which were recently restored is being held on Thursday at 5pm. The event is being organised in a collaborative effort between Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum and the History of Art Students’ Association (HoASA).
During the lecture, Caroline Tonna, curator and project leader, will give an overview on Gollcher as an artist and his landscape and seascape painting in the 1920s. Art historian and University of Malta lecturer Charlene Vella will analyse Gollcher’s artistic technique, while Pierre Bugeja, head conservator at Prevarti, will explain the technical process of the restoration.
Palazzo Falson is collaborating with artist and art educator Debbie Bonello for its upcoming ‘Young Artists Workshop’. The free virtual workshop is open for children aged six to 10 and is being held on May 22 from 10 to 11am.
Children will learn new watercolour techniques with Bonello, who will help them create their own painting. Inspiration will be drawn from seascape and landscape paintings by Olof Gollcher, an artist in his own right, whose paintings are displayed at the Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum in Mdina. Six of these paintings have recently been restored through the support of the Majjistral Action Group Foundation under the LEADER Programme 2014-2020 for the restoration of assets of artistic and cultural value.
The white Carrara marble sculpture portraying the Madonna holding the Christ Child that was situated behind the main altar of the Observant Franciscan church of Ta’ Ġieżu in Rabat has been conserved and restored at the Prevarti Ltd laboratory.
The life-size Madonna and Child sculpture will be returned to the church this week, to be placed on the second altar on the north aisle where it was intended to be placed after the 1757 reconstruction of the Rabat church.
After being removed from the church on September 15, and as part of the research and prior to the cleaning tests and conservation, the sculpture has been subjected to intense photographic documentation, tests under UV and Gamma rays, as well as 3D scans.