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The Museum of the City, under the Department of Employment, Tourism and Culture, has completed the restoration of a carving of Santa Teresa de Jesus, belonging to the school of Salzillo.
This image of the transverberation of Santa Teresa, an anonymous size of the eighteenth century, could be attributed to Roque López, according to experts consulted.
It is made of polychrome carved wood and its dimensions are 86x63x29 centimeters.
The City Council, through the Museum of the City, has funded this restoration, with a budget of 3,600 euros, which was conducted by Fuensanta Lopez Rosagro, expert restoration work of art and currently works at the Center for Restoration of the region.
The size, to be shown at the Museum of the City until October 30, then return to the Discalced Carmelite Convent of Algezares, which owns it.
At the Museum of the City we came as part of the cultural activities scheduled for Murcia Three Cultures International Festival for 16 years.
Among other activities every year we produce an exhibition whose theme is related to the legacy that the existence of the Three Culture has made Murcia.
Sometimes discussed documentary heritage of the city of medieval era, has worked with other archaeological heritage and finally, some exhibitions have focused on key figures in one of the Three Cultures.
The City Museum chose last year to Santa Teresa de Jesus as the exhibition of Festival of the Three Cultures in a double tribute for the V centenary of his birth and being essential character in the Christian world with connotations of mixture between cultures, because of his Jewish background.
Thus, in the sample it was decided to offer the public a glimpse of the monastic order of the Discalced Carmelites of Algezares, portraying life in the convent and adding to the exposure of a photograph allusive piece to Santa Teresa de Jesus.
Once exposed the project to representatives of the Convent of Discalced Carmelites of Algezares, it was agreed that lend various objects and tools of daily life in the convent, two editions of the XVII and XVIII of the complete works of Santa Teresa and a book of accounts the convent of the nineteenth century.
Along with all this the convent had the transverberation Santa Teresa image, which was quite shabby so it was agreed that the Museum of the City finance such restoration.
Carving History
The first photographic reference this small sculpture belongs to the collection of MUBAM, from the inventory and catalog the Executive Board of Confiscation of Murcia commissioned in 1937.
In 36 the city of Murcia with its mayor, Fernando Piñuela to the head, created the very start of the Civil War, a Municipal Commission of Art Forfeiture to protect the movable and immovable heritage that had a remarkable value and was appointed director of the painter Luis Garay.
This also Murcian artist is commissioned to create a Municipal Museum as an aspiration of the corporation.
The confiscated works were moved and protected in principle at the Museum of Fine Arts but soon saw the need to safeguard them best and were transferred to the Cathedral.
The most important parts are guarded in the sacristy under the tower as building more protected place and the rest by the chapels.
In this process also they worked as technicians, the sculptor Clemente Cantos, and Pedro Sanchez Picazo.
He soon saw the need to complete the catalog cards with an image of the artwork seized, indicating their conservation status provenance and technical specifications of the work.
All these records and files are kept in the General Archive.
After the war this commission provides all documentation to the newly created Recovery Service and Defense of the National Artistic Heritage of Murcia, which immediately began the process of returning the works.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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