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The Director General of Cultural Assets, Francisco Gimenez, presented to the President of the Real, Most Illustrious, and Most Ancient Venerable Confraternity of the Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Carlos Valcarcel, restored size of one of the angels of the Christ-child Blood, the work of Nicolas de Bussy, who has undergone surgery at the Center for Restoration of the region.

This is a polychrome wood carving belonging to the group of five angels originally composed Step Holder, as conceived by Nicolas de Bussy in 1693.

The five children collected angels, in as many chalices, the Precious Blood of Christ, but in the nineteenth century composition was reduced to a single angel, who sat on a small column was custodian of the shed blood of the wound in his side.

During the Civil War, the Carmelite Church was stormed and images of Christ and the angels mutilated.

After the war, the Confraternity of the Christ decided to put together one of the angels which stood before in the corners of the step, and the rest were transferred in trust to several stewards.

The family Marín de Espinosa Labella, who received one of his father, Alfonso Marín de Espinosa Mendicuti, rejoined the small and valuable sculpture to the Confraternity in May 2012, which will be exhibited at the Museum of the entity once passion who has undergone the process of repair, Restoration Center.

The work presented a poor condition, with a thick layer of dirt and oxidized varnish, which in turn hid lot of overpainting made along different interventions to which this work has undergone over time.

Also, had a desencoladura at the junction of the right arm with the shoulder, with losses in back support and polychrome.

The general director of Cultural highlighted the rigorous and conscientious technicians Restoration Center, which allows the recovery of regional heritage.

The intervention, which has lasted for four months, has been to mechanical and chemical cleaning, consolidation of polychrome arrangement ungluing, coating gap, reintegration differentiated and final varnishing.

Source: CARM