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The three paintings, "Ecstasy of Saint Teresa", "The incest of the daughters of Lot" and an Immaculate, were presented last week after his return from the ASOARTE workshop in Murcia.

The activity will begin at 19:45 and will involve Loreto López Martínez, director of ASOARTE;

Juan Jiménez Asensio, retired director of the Municipal School of Plastic Arts and Manuel Muñoz Clares

The Councilor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Agustín Llamas, reported this morning that next Thursday, November 9 at 19:45 hours will take place in the former exhibition hall of the Palacio de Guevara will be a roundtable conference on the recent restoration of three canvases by Camacho Felizes, typical of the Palacio collection and linked to the Cultural Interest Property by the 2008 BIC declaration.

Agustín Llamas explained that "the three paintings (" Ecstasy of Santa Teresa "," The incest of the daughters of Lot "and one Immaculate) were presented last week after their return from the Murcia workshop ASOARTE, directed by Loreto López, where they The cleaning and restoration that has been done of these paintings has had a different degree of difficulty due to its conservation status, in all cases the canvases have had to be implemented with perimeter bands, inadequate patches and old repaints have been corrected, and a thorough cleaning has been carried out that complicated the use of inadequate varnishes ".

The Councilman of Culture has indicated that "in the conference will intervene Loreto López Martínez, director of ASOARTE, who will talk about the process of restoration of the canvases" The incest of the daughters of Lot "," Ecstasy of Saint Teresa "and" Immaculate ", abounding in interesting details about the recovery of these large canvases In this regard, it should be remembered that the Immaculate has required a general cleaning and a minimal reintegration of small affected areas, the paintings of Santa Teresa in ecstasy and the incest of Daughters of Lot have required a more complex intervention, in the first case, the lifting of repaints has affected areas of very specific lighting, while in the second painting the repaints reached until the concealment of some part of the figures. of the daughters of Lot can be seen today as it came out of Camacho's brushes, adding a landscape background with figures that, due to their deterioration, had been almost

completely masked. "

Llamas added that "it will also Juan Jiménez Asensio, retired director of the Municipal School of Plastic Arts and the restoration workshop linked to it, which addressed the recovery of up to 14 canvases by Pedro Camacho that, for the most part, make up the cycle for the feminine moral education made by the painter Camacho around 1695 for the "hall of the podium" of the Palace Finally, Manuel Muñoz Clares will introduce the theme of the iconographic sources in the painting of Camacho Felizes, a matter very little known and of which now it has a much clearer profile. "

The Culture Councilor pointed out that "after each speaker intervenes for about 20 minutes, will proceed to open a question time for attendees who will complete information that has not been sufficiently clear or could not be included in the planned interventions "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca