Portal de Santomera
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Restoration Center of the Region of Murcia, under the Ministry of Culture and Spokesperson, restoration work begins carving of Our Lady of the Rosary, patroness of Santomera, after the accident in which the image of the throne fell during a procession.
The Minister Noelia Arroyo visited today the center's facilities to see first hand how the intervention of the size and the outcome of the report done will be done.
Noelia Arroyo, accompanied by the general director of Cultural Heritage, Maria Comas, and the center's director, Francisco Lopez, congratulated the team for their "dedication to the conservation and restoration of historic and artistic heritage of the Region of Murcia".
The Minister added that "it is a priority for the regional government, and we will work, not only from this great center, but through new statements BIC, new projects and other activities that help preserve the entire regional wealth and history for the future ".
The Virgen del Rosario de Santomera is a polychrome wood carving almost a meter high made between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Its authorship is anonymous, but it is known that the image was deeply intervened in the late nineteenth century by Eusebio González and Baglietto.
As a result of the accident, which occurred on October 7, the image of the Patroness of Santomera hit one of the poles.
The next day, a technician Restoration Center traveled to the town to make an initial assessment, and the 9th was deposited for a detailed examination by visible light and ultraviolet light, radiographic studies and sampling for chemical analysis and stratigraphic.
The study shows different damage, although they are apparently very relevant, easy solution, so you just have to place the detached elements, layer preparation rebuild and reintegrate chromatic color faults;
and, to complete the work, applying a protective coating.
According to the technical report notes, the restoration process has been facilitated by the speed of the members of the Brotherhood, which collected all the fragments detached after the coup.
Restoration Center
Since its inception in 1998, there are countless works from throughout the region who have been through the Restoration Center, where she currently works in the recovery of 15 works from, among others, to the Community, the University of Murcia or several Religious institutions in the Region, and involving an investment budget of around 100,000 euros.
In the center of the latest technological advances, such as X-rays, endoscope, infrared reflectography, painted chamber, scanning or analytical chemistry apply.
In this regard, Noelia Arroyo recalled that the equipment "is a national reference, which allows the best and most comprehensive preventive treatment recovery and study of our goods."
He also stressed the "important research heritage, training and dissemination, seminars, publications and exhibitions, held in the center."
Among the works that have been restored include, within the religious sculpture, Holy Communion and the Holy Family by Salzillo, the Christ of the Blood of Bussy or Our Lady of Arrixaca.
It has also stepped paintings of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries from the Museum of Fine Arts of Murcia, as well as other paintings from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries Nicolas de Villacis, Pedro Orrente, Hernando de Llanos, Murillo, Zurbaran and Ribera, among others, and works of contemporary sculpture.
Source: CARM
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