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Original elements of the Palace such as bargueños, intercessions, paintings, chests, lamps ... have already returned to the rooms of the building with the aim of progressively recovering the most monumental aspect of Guevara.
The first phase of recovery of the Palace can be contemplated within the celebration of the Night of the Museums.
The Mayor of Lorca, Fulgencio Gil, together with the councilman of Culture in the City Council of our city, Agustín Llamas, has supervised this morning the progress of the works of recovery of the ample movable patrimony pertaining to the Palace of Guevara that is being recovered by the Municipal Consistory, and that is returning to the different rooms of the Palace in a gradual manner.
The Mayor explained that the first interventions that are being made relate to the restoration of the House's furniture, which has deteriorated over the years and the effects of the earthquakes in 2011, as well as the Palace's excellent pinacoteca.
As for the furniture, the interventions have been made in collaboration with the Department of Employment through separate furniture restoration workshops.
As a result of this collaboration, it has already been possible to recover an important part of the most significant pieces of the collection that includes the 3 bargueños of the 17th and 18th centuries, the large chest of the Casa, the bedroom, the furniture of the Salón Amarillo in its most, as well as tables and chairs from other rooms.
Currently, they are working on the recovery of the Sala Pharmacy, and it is expected that in a short period of time it will occupy the room in which it was already located before the earthquakes.
Fulgencio Gil has indicated that also a specialist in Restoration, Bachelor of Fine Arts, has been working for almost a year in the recovery of the furniture of the collection and his paintings.
Thanks to this intense work has been recovered a wide series of pieces that are part of the furniture, the original lamps of the Palace, so that they are almost all in their original places, as well as in some paintings that needed only light interventions.
We must remember that thanks to the different recovery actions that have been carried out in recent years, several pieces of singular significance have been located, such as a series of 7 fencing foils from the 19th century along with several protective and protective shields for the swords ( plugs), in addition to 4 cavalry sabers, as well as a series of firearms that can be dated in the 18th century, consisting of 3 pistols, 1 blunderbuss and 1 rifle (antecedent of the rifle).
It is a series of elements that belonged to the owners and residents of the House and that appeared years ago in the room intended for library. It was also discovered a transverse flute, which consists of 6 pieces: 1 head, 3 bodies of Left hand, 1 body of right hand and 1 foot with key, is made of boxwood, commonly used for this type of instruments, along with ebony and ivory.
In addition, it could be an instrument of Italian origin, more specifically, linked to the environment of the family of turners Panormo, active in Naples, Paris and London in the second half of the eighteenth century
The Mayor has explained that, at the same time, intervention has been carried out by a specialized Restoration Workshop of 3 large paintings of the collection made by Camacho Felices: Mystical ecstasy of Saint Teresa, The Daughters of Lot and the Immaculate of the main staircase.
With all this, I have already recovered for the visit the main staircase, the Hall formerly known as the Camachos, the master bedroom and a good part of the Yellow Room, which now, and in accordance with what was established in its day in the Criteria for the Exhibition of the Palace collection, it becomes part, together with the annexed room, of the Salón del Estrado, existing in the original composition of the Palace and which disappeared in the middle of the 19th century with the creation of the Salón Amarillo, and which now it is recovered to give the original meaning to the collection of Happy Camacho paintings.
The restoration of the façade, in progress
Fulgencio Gil has anticipated that the recovery process of the Palacio de Guevara will be implemented by proceeding to the restoration of its facade, which is in itself one of the most outstanding elements of the monumental heritage of Lorca.
In fact we are talking about one of the flags of greater representation and worth of our city, we want it to look as it deserves, and that it has defects produced, mainly, by the passage of time and erosion that the emissions from road traffic that transits by Lope Gisbert provoke in the stone material of this facade.
Fulgencio Gil explained that the sculptural cover, made by Nicolás de Bussy between 1689 and 1694, needs to recover, through cleaning and consolidation, the original appearance of the same, as well as curb the aggravated state of alteration that presents.
To this end, the non-original surface layers and the alternating deposits will be removed, and the stone support will be consolidated in depth, including the correction of small deteriorations that, in the medium to long term, could pose a danger to the stability of the structure.
The set of actions aimed at the enhancement of this facade, whose restoration will begin imminently, includes cleaning by removing deposits of soot, oily dirt, crusts, plasters, putties, touch-ups and other alterations accumulated throughout the life of the building, restoration of cracks and small losses and deep consolidation of the support.
It should be noted that the Guevara house-palace was built over a long period of time to take its final form thanks to the reforms carried out between 1691 and 1705 by Juan de Guevara García de Alcaraz, Knight of the Order of Santiago from 1689. In 1691 the main staircase is finished and in 1694 the cover is dated, Unknown the name of the tracist, although those of Bussy or Caballero have been shuffled among others, what is clear is that the typical scheme of the altarpieces of Solomonic columns of the time, replacing the religious representations with the heraldry of the family.
The building, which has been inhabited until a few years ago, was restored in 1996 once its last owner, Mrs. Concepción Sandoval, Baroness Petrés and Mayals, descendant of the Guevara family donated it to the Lorca City Council with the desire to that the Palace of Guevara fulfilled the function of Museum.
The treatment that is planned to take place on the façade of the Palace aims to correct pathologies such as:
-Alveolization: formation of cavities in the stone.
-Arenization: continued erosion of the stone.
-Suffering caused by traffic pollution on Lope Gisbert Street.
-Costra black formed by the combination of acid from the environment and rainwater.
-Loss of volume in various areas.
The criteria for the application of the treatments for the recovery of the façade must be reversible, stable, non-aggressive and discernible, for which the following have been proposed:
-Cleaning with dry brush.
-Cleaning with dry projection.
-Elimination of salts.
-Cleaning of surface deposits.
-Chemical-physical cleaning of the stone.
-Reintegration of recovered parts.
- Consolidating treatment.
- Water repellent treatment.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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