Nothing is better than the Eve of the Immaculate Conception to introduce that image Purer The Aguilar y Esslav de Cabra Foundation has regained all its splendor,
The Immaculate Conception Oration, the place where it will remain … From this moment on, she welcomed the presentation of her new status. Work by a Malaga sculptor Salvador Gutierrez de Leonknown as “Leon the Elder”, dates from the late 18th or early 19th century and has generous dimensions of 2 meters high and 1.20 meters wide.
The image’s restorer, Professor Salvador Guzmán Moral, president of the institution, reversed the image’s advanced condition deterioration They showed and restored their original appearance, as detailed in statements to ABC.
The expressive appearance and hands of Purísima del Oratorio
La Purísima presents the academic style of the 19th century and follows a strong Baroque tradition in Malaga. Virgo has mountainous inspiration and base breathing Baroque air Like Murillo’s Immaculate Conception, where angels flutter, this specialist points out.
The jacket and cloak are gilded and cooked. Glassy eyes for most Little angels They were lost, and so were their fingers. There had been repainting, loss of support and general dirt, so cleaning and reconsolidation work was carried out with “entirely satisfactory results”.
Details of the angels present at the feet of the Virgin
In a verb Presentation The Mayor of Cabra, Fernando Priego, participated this Thursday in the recovery of the Virgin; Culture Advisor Maria Sierra Sabariego; Salvador Guzmán Moral; And the Secretary of the Foundation, Antonio Ramon Jiménez Montes.
María Sierra Sabarijo, Fernando Priego, Salvador Guzmán, and Antonio Ramón Jiménez Montes
The Aguilar y Esslav Foundation has for many years been dedicated to restoring the historical educational heritage that the Center has had for nearly three and a half centuries. In addition to the establishment of the Museum and Study Center, the construction of the chapel was added, which restores the old chapel that had always existed in the school and later in the institute.
“Church She disappeared in the 1970s and her main image, the Immaculate Conception, went to the meeting room, and later to the religion seminar and then stayed in the room,” recalls Guzmán Moral.
In the past, the Foundation carried out an initial rehabilitation of the image and Expose her For a while it was in the museum, but a decade ago it was decided to remove it to undergo a comprehensive restoration that lasted several years.
There is evidence of this Purísima of Year 1819When the new church was blessed this image is certain to have been designed to preside over a small altar. For the restorer, “this is perhaps the best portrait of Salvador Gutiérrez de León.”
With the integration of Purísima Current worship From the oratory of the Aguilar y Eslava Foundation, because it is actually located next to San José and Christ, the work of Juan Manuel Minero.