Mattia Preti, Un Ponte Tra Italia e Malta/ A Bridge Between Italy and Malta : Il Dipinto Con San Giorgio e Il Drago Dopo Il Restauro/ The Painting St George and the Dragon After the Restoration, Paperback by Mercalli, Marica (EDT); Cavallari, Maria Neve (EDT); Formentini, Fiammetta (EDT); Gentili, Annamaria (TRN); Naudi, Norbert Rizzo (TRN), ISBN 8849207875, ISBN-13 9788849207873, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

This is a collection of essays on the restoration of Mattia Preti's painting, St. George and the Dragon, which was on exhibition at St. John's Co-Cathedral in Malta in 2005. The essays, which are in Italian with side by side English translations of varying quality, discuss the history of the painting and various aspects of the restoration process including chemical and mineralogical testing, entomological research, and infrared reflectography. Readers interested in art restoration will appreciate the high quality color plates of the painting in various stages of repair. Distributed in the . by International Publishers Marketing (IPM). Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR ()