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Lorca's mayor, Francisco Jodar, next to the Director General of Fine Arts of the Autonomous Region, Enrique Ujaldón, has delivered this morning to Step Incarnate of the restored image of the Blessed Virgin of Solitude.
The mayor has expressed his "great personal emotion" to make delivery of this size for processions Pass is Honorary Chairman.
The details of the restoration process, which has been completed by the workshop of the CARM Veronicas have been:
Work: Our Lady of Solitude
Author: José Sánchez Lozano
Dimensions: 153 x 75 x 70 cm.
Period: Twentieth century
Technique: carved and painted wood
Ownership: Brotherhood of the Incarnate Paso Lorca
Budget: 25,000 €
Runtime: 4 months old.
The art historical report of Fine Arts said that the carving of Our Lady of Solitude is the owner of the Ladies of the Virgen de la Soledad.
It is a beautiful dress size by José Sánchez Lozano (1904-1995) in 1963 (signed and dated on the base execution) following records eighteenth-century aesthetic of the sculpture.
There are obvious debts to the great Francisco Salzillo, also taking into account the enormous task of restoring and revitalizing that he showed the baroque imagery Sánchez Lozano.
An artist who always knew how to extrapolate the artistic tradition of the eighteenth century to the twentieth-century religious art.
Holder hosted from a solid mastery of the great sculptor José Plans and the Academy of San Jorge of Barcelona, respectively, also had its beginnings as an artist from an extraordinary predicament between Murcia and the Spanish gentry.
All this led him to establish not the most promising artistic centers, but on the contrary, in the Murcia region and neighboring provinces.
In Levante focus its activity based on the cultivation of religious themes (devotional images, passages of Holy Week, etc. ..) to the detriment of other genera that also dealt with teacher expertise.
Conservation Status.
This is an image of reels.
On these the author did a enlienzado as a basket or skirt.
Due to the movement suffered during the Easter procession and the manipulation that is submitted to be dressed the sculpture had undergone various alterations and pathologies.
The lower end of enlienzado had a previous intervention, it had been in place polyurethane resin holding the edge with the wooden base, this resin placed over all disturbed aesthetically.
The upper body had multiple cracks and ungluing.
The carving is made of common pine, this was too dry.
There were many scratches on the polychromy of the neck and shoulders of the Virgin due to the pins used to dress up the work.
The hands had many scratches and scuffs.
Were abundant in hair loss and even polychrome preparation.
The tabs were badly damaged.
Missing several crystal tears.
Intervention Process:
The process has provided: Analytical and sampling, mechanical cleaning, removal of excess polyurethane coating gap, reintegration chromatic final protection, placement of new tabs and placement of tears missing.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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