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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, accompanied by the director of the Center for Restoration, Francisco López Soldevila, presented this morning at the Cathedral of Murcia, the picture 'Battle of Coraceros', a 'Christ Crucified' Both anonymous and 'Cristo de la Salud, by Juan González Moreno, recently restored works in the center under the Autonomous Region for a total of 18,000 euros.
Enrique Ujaldón said during delivery the work done by the Center for Restoration in the recovery of regional heritage.
The ceremony was also attended by the Dean of the Cathedral, José Antonio Trigueros, the chaplain of the Capuchins, Domingo Lopez, and the pastor of the church of Carmen de Murcia, José Carrasco.
The Cathedral Museum receives 'Battle of Coraceros', oil on large canvas, dating from the eighteenth century by an anonymous author, who is paired with another of similar size and similar case, and responds to the tradition of paintings of battles.
The original fabric, which has a red preparation, linen fabric showed very dehydrated and brittle.
It offered a large tear in the lower right and had a varnish rust and repaint in different parts of the work.
The amount of the intervention amounted to 6,000 euros.
The other two restored works are sculptural and in both cases, crucifixes, albeit in a different size, style, and dating.
In one case there is a small crucified belonging to the Church of the Carmen de Murcia, just 60 centimeters, dating from the eighteenth century, but not Salzillo school, and of unknown authorship.
Modeling presents a smooth and quiet overall composition, concentrating more baroque in the size of loincloth.
The crucifix might have been otherwise hand image has since disappeared.
The work presented many cracks and structural cracks.
The arms were loose with respect to the trunk.
Accumulated also very dirty, most evident in the upper regions of the arms, neck and shoulders.
They were also very evident wear of polychromy, particularly in the legs and knees, in addition to the loss of several fingers and part of INRI.
The treatment has been represented a cost of $ 3,000.
Finally, the technicians of the Center for the Restoration of Autonomous intervened on the image of Cristo de la Salud, which is venerated in the convent of the Capuchin church, and retains the original head, saved from destruction during the Civil War datable in the sixteenth century, while the rest of the body was made by Juan Gonzalez Moreno.
The original image was venerated in Murcia since the eighteenth century, although appropriate, according to tradition, Alcira.
The photographs preserved in the work destroyed and the remaining head, they respond, however, the usual coding cristíferas representations of five hundred.
For its part, the body carved by González Moreno, even when referring to certain archaic models, a far cry from the original, getting, however, a representation of the crucified body according to the canons of classical Renaissance sculpture.
The image was made of pine wood, polychrome untrained traditional film only a mild tuning.
The head was inserted into the new body and the whole is polychrome with the same technique, so staff González Moreno.
The work presented many cracks and structural cracks, which is very common in the work of this sculptor, due to the type of wood used and assemblies made.
In addition, accumulated a lot of dirt, more evident in the upper regions of the arms, neck and shoulders.
They were also very evident wear of polychromy, particularly in the legs and knees.
The amount of work done amounts to 9,000 euros.
Source: CARM
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