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The exhibition 'Salzillo and Caravaca de la Cruz.
The sculptor of the greatest credit of these Reynos', organized on the occasion of the Jubilee Year 2017, has received more than 7,000 visits during the first month that has remained open to the public in the old Church of the Company of Jesus.
The Cajamurcia Foundation - in collaboration with the City Council of Caravaca de la Cruz, the Bishop's Office, the Autonomous Community and the Camino de la Cruz Foundation - wanted to join this Jubilee by organizing an exhibition composed of more than fifty pieces, some of them Restored for the occasion, mainly sculptures, but also paintings, fabrics, plans, maps, books and various objects as sacred vessels.
The works, which will remain in Caravaca until May 28, have been donated by museums, churches, convents and private collections throughout the Region of Murcia and some of them see for the first time the light outside the convent where they come from.
But the main attraction of this exhibition is that it represents a unique and unrepeatable opportunity to see up close some of the most emblematic sculptures of the best Spanish baroque sculptor: the imaginary Murcia Francisco Salzillo.
Among them are the steps of San Juan and La Verónica, which parade on the morning of Good Friday in one of the most representative and well-known processions outside the borders of Murcia thanks to the artistic value of the procession.
From the Salzillo Museum, which exceptionally yields them for the occasion, are two works dating from 1755. San Juan is considered the ideal model of Spanish Baroque sculpture of the eighteenth century for its perfect unity of form and color.
According to curator of the exhibition and professor of art history, Cristobal Belda, "is conceived as a synthesis of the art of volume, tridimensionality and the corporeity that transmit their forms, also highlighting their sense of movement."
For its part, La Verónica represents Salzillo's own canon, according to a dimensional structure of the image resolved in medium proportions and various planes that give volume and movement to it.
Other works of great artistic value are the guild saints San Isidro Labrador and San Roque, also made by the most universal sculptor that has given the Region of Murcia.
It is also worth looking at - or comparing - the versions of San José and El Niño made by Francisco Salzillo himself and his father, Nicolás, as well as the different representations of the Virgin of Angustias sculpted by Salzillo and his disciples José López and Marcos Laborda.
Visitors can appreciate the best Murcian imagery in the hands of other pupils from the Salzillo school, such as Ginés López and Francisco Fernández Caro, who graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in San Fernando and carried the echoes of the master until mid Of the 19th century.
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Of Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia)
Salzillo and Caravaca de la Cruz
The sculptor of the greatest credit of these Reynos
Place: Former Church of the Company of Jesus.
Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia)
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
And 5 to 7 a.m.
Sundays and holidays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Closed: From 13 to 19 April and from 1 to 5 May
Free guided tours at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m.
And 17:30 hours, previous reservation in the telephone 868 17 51 88. Maximum 20 people.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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