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The University of Murcia celebrates San Eloy, patron of silversmiths (28/11/2017)

Each year, students of the fourth year of Art History of the UMU, under the direction of Professor Jesús Rivas Carmona, organize a series of activities that serve for the remembrance, homage and dissemination of what was an important profession in the Region of Murcia: The goldsmith.

This celebration aims to recall the ancient tradition of the Guild of Silversmiths, whose big day corresponds to November 29, coinciding according to tradition, with the Thursday before December 1.

The activities began on November 9, with the classic goldsmith course led by Professor Jesús Rivas Carmona.

On November 29, the eve of San Eloy, at 9:30 in the morning, the transfer of the image of San Eloy to the Church of San Bartolomé will be celebrated.

At 12 noon, the conference "Personal visions of the investigation of silverware", by Kirstin Kennedy and Francisco de Paula Cots Morató, will take place in Room 2.15 of the Aulario de La Merced.

At 4:00 pm, in the Hemicycle of the Faculty of Letters, conference: "Silverware and iconography: lines of research", by Francisco de Paula Cots Morató, from the University of Valencia, and at 6 pm, presentation of the book Estudios de Platería San Eloy 2017, with the intervention of Joaquín Cánovas Belchí (Director of the Art History Department of the UMU), María del Carmen Sánchez Manzanares (Director of the Publications Service), Pascual Martínez Ortiz (Manager of the Cajamurcia Foundation) and Pascual Cantos Gómez (Dean of the Faculty of Arts), and then the colloquium: "The current state of research in goldsmithing", by Francisco de Paula Cots Morató and Kirstin Kennedy.

Finally, at 7:00 pm, Javier Alonso Benito, from the National Museum of Decorative Arts, will give the lecture "El mueble de plata".

On Thursday, November 30, the celebration of San Eloy, Patrón de los Plateros, will be held, with a series of events that will start at 10 in the morning and include the appointment of the 2017 positions.

Source: Universidad de Murcia

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