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The image of Santa Eulalia has returned today to its sanctuary after completion of the restoration of the altarpiece, which began in January.
The patron saint of Totana has been featured on shoulders from the church of Santiago to the sanctuary, where there has been a mass inside the temple with the blessing of the new altar.
The Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Pedro Antonio Sánchez, and the mayor of the municipality, Isabel Maria Sanchez, along with a general director of Cultural Property, Maria Comas, and members of the municipal corporation attended the Mass celebrated by the pastor of the church of Santiago, Jose Ruiz.
Restoration work
This work attributed to retablista Jerome Caballero and dated in the eighteenth century and is declared as a Cultural Monument with character.
Following a previous study that showed damage were analyzed, the scaffolding was placed and proceeded to the graphic and photographic documentation of the whole.
Subsequently, analytical samples of the different areas were performed altar materials.
The work plan included previous protection by special role and treatment of wooden support with cleaning, disinfection, consolidation of support under the cracks and fissures and replacement of parts.
The last phase consisted in treating the gold and polychrome in various stages such as surface cleaning, removal of physical-chemical provisional protection, consolidation, cleaning, coating gaps, chromatic reintegration and final protective layer.
, In addition to the direction and supervision of Restoration Center of the Ministry of Culture, all these works have followed the criteria set by the various agencies of international entity on intervention and restoration of works of art.
The action in the altarpiece of Santa Eulalia has had a budget of 72,600 euros, financed by the Ministry of Culture.
Altarpiece of Santa Eulalia
The altarpiece of Santa Eulalia was made about the first third of XVIIII century.
It is a work of carved, painted and gilded pine linked to Jerome Caballero (1668-1751).
The structure of the altarpiece due to traces traditional and popular in the early eighteenth Baroque, where the profusion of plant elements opulent size harmonizes with the inclusion of architectural, such as pilasters and balustrades, purely decorative function supports.
The colors in blue and gold tones, and the incorporation of highly significant iconographic elements, like angels young men carrying shields of the Villas of Aledo and Totana, the image of the Crucified and the Dove of the Holy Spirit, make a magnificent work from which it is visually accessible to the contemplation of the Holy across the bow of the car.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Totana
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