The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón today presented the image of the Child of the Virgin Queen of Angels Parish at Our Lady of the Angels parish in Sangonera la Verde Murcia to which it belongs.
The size attributed to the sculptor Francisco Sánchez Tapia had a budget of $ 3,000 and a lead time of four months.
It is a polychrome wood carving will be part of the whole Madonna and Child Birth and made in the last third of the nineteenth century and represents the naked boy covered with a light blue loincloth.
The play had a poor condition, with previous interventions, repainting, rusty nail varnish misplaced.
Intervention work consisted of mechanical and chemical cleaning, removal of repainting, color sat, fix cracks and ungluing, reintegration and protection differentiated final color.
All these were in the Restoration Center of the Autonomous Region of Murcia.
Source: CARM