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Among the canvases to be restored are "The Immaculate Conception", "Incest of the Daughters of Lot" and "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa" which will have a budget of 68,534 euros.
The works are part of the BIC declaration of the building
The Councilor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Agustín Llamas, reported this morning that the Lorca Consistory, through this management area, will start in the next few days the processes corresponding to the restoration and conservation of the pictorial works of the Palace Of Guevara that are part of the BIC declaration of the building and that will be, therefore, in the permanent exhibition that will open in the near future.
Among these pictorial works are the paintings of "The Immaculate Conception", "Incest of the Daughters of Lot" and "The Ecstasy of Santa Teresa" by the lorquino painter Pedro Camacho Felizes who will have a budget of 68,534 euros for their restoration.
Specifically, the painting of the Immaculate Conception is an oil painting on canvas, 260 x 200 centimeters, after 1710. This painting is located on the main staircase leading to the noble floor of the Palacio de Guevara.
The model of Immaculate, the arrangement of the hands, the dress and mantle, the types of little angels that are arranged around her and even the chorus of angels in the background, as well as the landscape at the feet of the Virgin, send the painter Camacho although they belong to a more refined aesthetic within the production of the painter, and therefore corresponding to the last years of his life.
It is new in the style of this painter to fashion the mantle, with angular folds, and a sweetness of the face of the Virgin in the seem to have abandoned a straight and prolonged type of nose and eyelid eyes very highlighted by the light.
The oil of the Immaculate Conception plays an important role in the set of paintings commissioned for the house of the santiaguista gentleman and remembers the oath that made those who belonged to this Order to defend the dogma of the immaculate conception of Mary.
It should be noted that the two large canvases of the access stairs, portrait of don Juan and Immaculate, are the end of the via triumphalis in honor of the Guevara surname.
In addition, it forms a unique letter of presentation of a tour through the interior of the Palace, which will provide visitors with the contemplation of unique domestic spaces and a wide collection of furniture and paintings spanning from the 17th to the 19th century.
The canvas of Incesto of the Daughters of Lot is an oil painting on canvas of 209 x 309 centimeters, made towards the year 1695. It is direct debtor of one of the most celebrated creations of the French painter Simón Vouet that Camacho extended introducing in the Left area a distant view of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by fire.
There are slight modifications with respect to main group, but the essence of the original group remains in this replica Lorca.
It has incorporated the facial features of the painter, a greater intensity in the lighting and the particular way of styling the lorquino fabrics.
It is a canvas of the most artistic efforts of Camacho, who introduces a landscape scene unusual in his work.
The painting The Ecstasy of Santa Teresa is an oil painting on canvas measuring 204 x 291 centimeters, made towards the year 1695. It treats a theme abundantly represented in the western art from the canonization of the saint in 1622. However, the composition that Camacho used to represent this scene has more to do with the picture of the Italian Lanfranco on a subject similar to the ecstasy of Santa Margarita de Cortona-.
Only the main group seems influenced by prints, since the rest of the work Marian appearance and group of little angels playing with the elements of the table - is a recreation of the lorquino to broaden the scene of the painting and give an architectural environment according to what Which is supposed to be the cell of the saint in which the mystical experience took place.
The painting contains all the aesthetic elements that define the painter's plastics - hands and hands, folds of cloths, short range of colors with preference of ocher and brown and the taste for naturalistic details that give the canvas an almost domestic air.
Having resolved the space in which the main figures are placed with a simple perspective, the break of glory in which the Virgin and Child appear serves as the main focus of illumination, intensifying the light on the figures, and to prolong the reduced space of the cell monkish.
The collection of paintings by Pedro Camacho Felizes (1644-1716) that houses the House of Guevara is undoubtedly the most relevant exhibition of this lorquino painter as it reaches a score of canvases that comprise different stages of the artist.
Camacho was the best painter of a lorquina trilogy that composes next to Matheos Ferrer and Muñoz of Cordova, and even the painting that practiced between the end years of the XVII and the date of its death reaches levels of quality that put it on par of the Murcian painters of the moment.
He enjoyed fame and esteem and it would fall on the most important commissions of individuals and institutions.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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