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Miguel Angel House notes that the exhibition is an ideal claim to publicize the benefits of the city.
The Mayor of Madrid exalts the figure of Murcia sculptor and invites those who visit the capital to admire the genius baroque sculptor
A historic opportunity for thousands of people to enjoy the genius of the best Baroque sculptor and, while an effective lure for visitors and tourists.
So this morning defined the Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Ángel Cámara, presentation at the Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid of the splendid collection of Salzillo Bethlehem, which has had as host of luxury with the Mayor of Madrid, Ana Botella.
Mayor House stressed that the pieces on display are one of the most representative Spanish Historic nativity scenes, both narrative originality of the different scenes as the anthropological value of representations of the city and the garden of Murcia, obvious features in polychrome and the configuration of each of the parts.
The Salzillo Bethlehem, which has been donated by the Brotherhood of Our Father Jesus Nazarene, will be on display until February 3.
The presentation was also attended by Rafael Gómez, Councillor for Culture of the City of Murcia, Antonio Gómez FAYREN, president of the Brotherhood of Our Father Jesus Montero White, Assistant Director General and Regional Director of Madrid, María Teresa Marin, Director of Salzillo Museum; and professor at the University of Murcia Concepción de la Peña, curator of the exhibition with the foregoing, among other authorities.
Historical Event
José Antonio Martínez López, director of the Center Cibeles, has said it is a "historic event" exposure Salzillo Bethlehem, "something quite extraordinary, that fills us with great satisfaction, because we found an unattainable desire."
The Bethlehem was made ​​by Francisco Salzillo between 1776 and 1783 for the nobleman Jesualdo Riquelme Murcia and Fontes.
Although the cribs became fashionable in the Carlos III of Spain and despite the Neapolitan blood Salzillo, the collection of Riquelme differs from the Neapolitan nativity scene inspired by the Spanish peasantry, his deep religious feeling and tendency to narrative as well as the modeling of the figures with their rich polychrome.
However, in the tradition of Murcia cribs riding back to the seventeenth century, religious communities and the Capuchin, Augustinian, Carmelite or Clares, prone Custom poetic works related to Jesus' childhood.
The city thus became instrumental in the history of Spanish and custom crib introduction into domestic enclave areas.
Murcia is still a world leader in the production of cribs.
Done in the last stage of life of the sculptor, this great work is essential in production.
If the steps to the Brotherhood of Jesus were meant to go out and manifested a peculiar religiosity which resulted in certain colors, gestures and body movements, Bethlehem is a work that gives way to a new form of contemplation, a smaller and with a more festive and Christmas was the time setting.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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