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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Iconodule, post: 10671813, member: 91417&quot;]They need ART restorers/conservatorsto do the work. This is a significant art historical, as well as devotional, work of art by Luisa Roldán (La Roldana)1656-1704, considered the first female sculptor in Spain. Professional restorers /conservators do in-depth analysis of original paint, condition, etc. before they start any restoration, trying to make it true to the original work. In past eras restorers (often painters) just painted over the original surface. (Think of Leonardo da Vinci&#039;s Last Supper before the decades-long modern restoration. Instead of repainting the mural, they removed the overpainted surface and stablized what remained.) I have no idea how many layers of paint may or may not cover the surface Roldán&#039;s sculpture or what the condition of the wood is, but careful conservators would try to restore it to its original appearance. (I doubt they would be adding fake eyelashes!) That can be a tricky matter, particularly because this is a beloved, functioning focus for devotions (not housed in museum conditions) and pious devotees are used to seeing it in a certain way.</p><p><br /></p><p>Attaching a few works by Luisa Roldán.&nbsp; They are either small terracotta statuettes or the larger devotional works, usually with wooden face, hands, &amp; feet over an aramature dressed in rich brocades or other fabric.&nbsp; I assume the fabric has been changed out over the centuries.&nbsp; I wonder if any original fabric still exists. (I have no information on that.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533372[/ATTACH]</p><p>(Hispanic Society of America, New York City)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533377[/ATTACH]</p><p>Death of Saint Mary Magdalen (detail)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533376[/ATTACH]</p><p>Virgin &amp; Child with St John the Baptist (Loyola University Art Museum)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533373[/ATTACH]</p><p>La Virgine de la Macarena de la Esperanza (Seville)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533374[/ATTACH]</p><p>La Virgine de la Macarena de la Esperanza (detail of face)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533375[/ATTACH]</p><p>San Ginés de la Jara (Getty Art Museum)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533378[/ATTACH]</p><p>San Ginés de la Jara (detail of hand &amp; brodade)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]533379[/ATTACH]</p><p>San Ginés de la Jara (view of hollow bottom)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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