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Restoration Center of the Region of Murcia has restored sculpture of Christ the balcony which is venerated in the parish of the Immaculate Conception and traditionally taken out in procession on Good Friday morning with the Brotherhood of Our Lady of Conception and Mercy.
From next week the work will be located in an altarpiece in the baroque style of one of the side chapels of the church of La Concepción.
The Balcony Christ had a very poor condition because the trunk had several cracks and the original color was lost.
Thanks to a grant of 12,000 Euros from the Department of Fine Arts, the Center for Restoration of the Region of Murcia has returned to the image to its original glory after undergoing mechanical and chemical cleaning, repainting and reintegration phase of color, etc. intervention processes.
The Balcony Christ is an image anonymous, dress, from the late seventeenth century.
The size and was documented in 1706, known as Lord Imprisoned, Lord of the balcony or Lord of Providence.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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