After all of the commotion raised by a attainable new case of ‘eccehomo’ with the restoration of the Virgen del Carmen within the Iglesia Castrense de San Andrés, in A Coruña, these chargeable for the temple have come out of the controversy.
The picture, after spending just a few months exterior the temple to bear a supposed restoration, was exhibited once more with a very completely different side. The change reached the ears of Alberto Fuentes-Valcárcel, an architect who was learning the work of the sculptor Isidoro Brocos, writer of the carving, and who had not been capable of see the Virgin on his earlier go to to the church. He was horrified by the outcome, since he assures that “all the unique polychromy has been misplaced” and that actually “it’s not a restoration, however a repainting”.
Those chargeable for the temple say it was only a cleansing
NIUS has contacted one of many leaders of the army church, who defends the work completed. “It shouldn’t be a restoration, it has been cleaned, as a result of its state of conservation was not completely good”, he affirms. But after suggesting that the portray is totally completely different from the earlier one, so it appears extra like a ‘refinish’ than a cleansing, he admits that “just a little touch-up has been completed”.
He insists that the work shouldn’t be completed but and that, due to this fact, the outcome can’t but be assessed. In truth, the Virgin now seems with out the crown that she had earlier than, and so they clarify that she is in Madrid additionally present process a restore.
They don’t need to present the title of the individual chargeable for the work, however they stress that it was somebody “versed in heritage restoration points.” They defend the army chaplain, who’s in control of the day-to-day operating of the church, who was the one who commissioned the restoration “with all his good intentions.”
Some parishioners have already expressed their rejection of the brand new look of the Virgen del Carmen. Given this, these chargeable for the temple argue that it is a subjective appreciation and that “for tastes, colours”, and so they contemplate that different individuals will just like the change. In any case, they need to make it clear that “at no time has an try been made to switch the picture and lack its originality”.
They acknowledge having already had conversations with the General Directorate of Heritage of the Xunta and guarantee that “if one thing has been completed unsuitable, it will likely be rectified.” This week the determine might be seen within the church, however this Thursday it had already disappeared once more. They guarantee that it has been withdrawn to proceed with the restoration work and never due to the controversy unleashed.