First shot. The Virgin descended from the Arc

For any problem, for any need, there is always the Macarena who lives in the Ark. With her clear, clean, youthful complexion, without the glaze of years, without the patina of the most capricious interventions. Pedro Manzano, the doctor of Hopes-Triana, … Huelva, Malaga- I had a clear idea of ​​where to look. To the best Macarena, the one who left the sacristy of San Gil after being pampered by Juan Manuel, without artifice or distractions. The one we’ve seen since the ’70s – we checked it out now – wasn’t the best version of a peerless painer. It took almost half a century before an intelligent and meticulous restorer discovered it in the depths and in the heights. The Macarena that we have seen since the day of La Purísima is that of García Lorca, that of Pepe Díaz, that of the one who slept in the bed of Victoria the housekeeper, the one in love with Juan Manuel, that of Manuel Machado and Álvarez Quintero, that of Juan Miguel Sánchez, that of the hair of Juanita Reina, the Virgin to whom Juan Sierra, Aquilino Duque, Rodríguez Buzón wrote. Yes. The Virgin of the Arc came down to heal the pain of the Macarenos, as she healed the pain of absence during the years of war. She is still standing, clean and young to inspire Antonio García Barbeito who, on his return, offers her a quintet for the ages:

“Today the city kneels,

and pray to his good mother.

The nightmare is over.

Macarena again,

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