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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, with director of Books, Archives and Libraries, Francisco Giménez, today unveiled the sculpture restored to the Holy Family of Francisco Salzillo in the church of San Miguel de Murcia, place belonging size.
They also showed the document found on the inside of the sculpture, according Giménez, "could be a proposed contract probably manuscript Salzillo himself."
The sculpture of the Holy Family of Francisco Salzillo belongs to the church of San Miguel and dates from 1730, is one of the sculptural "more representative of the iconographic repertoire belonging to the teacher Murcia" said Ujaldón.
The book, a polychrome wood carving, gold and gilded, had different fractures, scream and grazes, as well as surface dirt and varnish oxidized.
The recovery of the Workshop of the Center for Restoration of the Region of Murcia has been to UVA analysis, endoscopy, consolidation, physical-chemical cleaning, coating, painting and varnishing final reintegration of protection.
The work has had a lead time of eight months and a budget of 40,000 euros.
During the restoration process of carving was discovered a handwritten document.
It was a document consisting of four small fragments of different sizes on paper laid paper written on both sides.
The manuscript has been recovered by the Restoration Laboratory of Books and Documents of the Archives to ensure their preservation, permanence and durability.
Gimenez noted that this is a draft contract and "believe, after the handwriting expert opinion, which is made of hand Salzillo own" so stressed "the historical importance" of this document.
Source: CARM
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