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The Director General of Cultural Assets, Francisco Giménez, delivered this afternoon at 19:00 pm in the chapel of San Agustín de Jumilla, the image of Our Lady of the Assumption, patron saint of the town, after the rehabilitation work carried out in the facilities of the Center for Restoration of the Autonomous Region over the last month.
Works at a cost of 6,500 euros, consisted in joining with dowels and glue one of the fingers of the size and part of a foot were fractured.
The same procedure was followed with cracks and desencoladuras woody in the structure due to changing moisture contents.
Have also been repaired polychrome losses spread throughout the work, either by friction or by lack of adherence to the original color, proceeding to the distinct chromatic reintegration.
The image of dress of the Virgin of the Assumption was made by Ignacio Pines Valencia (1883-1970) in 1940 to replace the destroyed during the Civil War.
Pinazo, who was a disciple of Benlliure, Jumilla worked for between 1929 and 1952, while, in addition to the size of the pattern, Jesus on, Our Lady of Mercy, Solitude, Mary Magdalene and Jesus of Nazareth.
He was a sculptor influenced by new currents prevailing classical academicians and artistic circles of his time, juxtaposing certain trace outbreaks regionalist realism.
The theme represented in the restored work is the Dormition of the Virgin, as this iconographic representation is known since the Middle Ages and derived from the 'koimesis' Byzantine, where lies the tomb where the image is arranged so oblique To facilitate his vision, otherwise, technical and aesthetic parameters derived from the baroque iconography.
Source: CARM
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