Portal de Lorca
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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, next to the Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, and the mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, visited this morning the body of the Church of San Francisco and the Ermita del Calvario Lorca, in which the Center for Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Property in the Region of Murcia has made several performances in the amount of 192,000 euros.
In particular, the performance at the Calvary Chapel has been focused on the murals, the altar and the chapel of the chapel.
The dome hosts all symbols relating to the crucifixion.
The altarpiece, by Jerome Knight in 1714, gives way to the dressing room.
The shrine, a square, with cross vault and floor tiles from Valencia in 1771, has its walls adorned with glasses and rococo carvings made in 1769 by the sculptor Jerome Martinez and Jerome Uzeta Corlear by 1772.
Inside the arch which opens to the ship picks up again the symbols of the Passion.
The conservation status of the group was very poor.
On the walls were large moisture problems with a loss of support and paintings that implies.
The altar was covered with a thick layer of dirt also very blackened varnish.
Besides, I had many losses and trim size.
The gold was good although there are scuffs on the usage areas.
The shrine had lost support and moldings, lack most of the decorative glass, a thick layer of very yellow shellac is not seen the original pinkish tones.
Structural cracks were visible in the wall construction.
In addition, the window in the same time that the whole was removed, and had been replaced by a new young pine.
The actions that have had a budget of 107,000 euros and a lead time of six months, have included cleaning, color sat, coating, color and final protection reintegration as it relates to the murals.
The altarpiece's work consisted of cleaning, fixing cracks and missing carved, coated, chromatic reintegration, gold and gold patching and final protection.
Finally, with respect to the dressing room, the restoration has focused on chemical and mechanical cleaning, sitting of color, arrangement and placement of the original window, under the door, stucco, placement of mirrors missing chromatic reintegration and protection final.
Box body of the church of San Francisco de Lorca
On the other hand, the Minister of Culture and Tourism visited the organ case of the Church of San Francisco.
The body of the eighteenth century baroque style featured on the cover attacks by insect attack, cracks, loose color.
The restoration works have included protection and consolidation of the pictorial film, treatment support and structure, reproduction of missing elements, physical and chemical cleaning, coating and desestucado lagoons, chromatic reintegration and sealing cracks in the inner wall of the box .
The restoration has been worth 85,000 euros and a deadline of three months.
Source: CARM
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