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The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón today presented the image of Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno, attributed to Nicolas de Bussy, in the parish of Our Lady of Remedies Albudeite, following the work carried out during the last six months by the Center for Restoration of the Region of Murcia.
The cost of the intervention on the work amounted to a total of 18,000 euros.
The Nazarene can be dated between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there documented story from 1724.
This is a carving of Christ wearing the Cross of 1.64 meters high, belongs to the Confraternity of the same name and taken out in procession during Holy Week.
Although this is an image whose authorship is difficult to define the treatment of wood, the mystical drama and naturalism plastic face to show pain and suffering linked to the late models in the seventeenth century.
Despite spurious interventions maintains a concept of religious expression and piety that connects with the work of Nicolas de Bussy, who has claimed so far, with some reservations.
The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, said during the ceremony that the intervention carried out by the Centre for Restoration "has sought to recover the original color after it has been repainted many."
He also announced that it will consolidate the murals have appeared in the work of restoring the Church of Our Lady of Remedies.
Condition
The conservation status of the work was very poor.
The head, hands and feet were completely repainted and the structure of the body had multiple cracks and broken.
All they mainly affect enlienzado, which was reinstated in time for Sánchez Lozano.
Furthermore, radiographic analysis shows the various structural reforms to which it was submitted.
In this analysis appeared reused and other discarded items, such as the mechanism used to move from below the arm of the Nazarene.
The intervention consisted of sampling and analística, mechanical cleaning, consolidation of color, chemical cleaning and disposal of polychromy repainting, fixing cracks and sewn with spikes, plaster of loopholes, breaks arrangement with resins and spike differentiated reintegration gaps, and setting foot tall, placement of new support for holding the cross on his shoulder, under the joint protection of the arms and end of the set by applying spray paint.
Source: CARM
