CULTIVATE THE CULTURE

NOTES AFTER A 30 YEARS RESTORATION

Abstract

With this paper I respond to the kind invitation to share my own experience about the restoration of a copy of the painting La Virgen con el niño by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo. The purpose of this work is to share the actions carried out in order to recover the aesthetic value of certain pieces of art that occupy a merely ornamental place in modern offices. Celebrating the interest that this type of action places in rescuing the value that many pieces have by themselves, I am pleased to detail the procedure used in our intervention, namely: diagnosis, cleaning, choice of materials, painting, color composition and finishing. All this gives us the opportunity to finally reflect on art and its mission to transcend the useful and the new just because it is new.