Government technicians of Aragon They will access Monday to the National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) to know in depth the state of the wall paintings that must return to the Sijena monastery by court order. This has advanced the press conference the Minister of Education, Culture and sport, Tomasa Hernández, who recalled that it is the second time that operators can observe the frescoes, although this will be more exhaustive and is already part of the seven -month schedule validated by the judge.
According to the car that gives green light to the definitive execution of the sentence, the personnel will carry out a “photometric” analysis of the paintings and theaters, the number 16 and 17, where they are exposed. Spaces that will close to the public as long as necessary by court order. Hernández recalled that the documentation collected by the Museum on the conservation of fragments, as well as environmental conditions, mainly temperature and humidity, will be accessed for the first time.
The counselor has communicated with her Catalan counterpart and has transferred that “there will be no problems” for the arrival of the technicians, although they still wait for their official response by letter. Hernández expects “collaboration” by the employers of the MNAC, the Generalitat and the Ministry of Culture, who have ten business days to provide an alternative schedule, which stretches the deadlines until September because the month of August is not considered as such in the judicial field.
However, the person responsible for the bouquet has continued, the data obtained on Monday does not aim to alter the seven months proposed by Aragon. A “reasonable” term, in the words of Tomasa Hernández. This has added that, in case of launching an alternative roadmap from the museum, the decision corresponds to the judge and “will have to accompany it with the tasks and their duration” weekly, both technical and administrative points.
As specified by the Head of Conservation and Restoration Service of Cultural Heritage, Arancha Ferrer, the data will be used to “work compatibly” with the conditions of the monastery chapter room, its original location and on which reports are recorded after the reform of the monastic complex. Thus, and at the expense of Monday’s exploration, the DGA will not contribute or require more documentation of the frescoes.
“Exact knowledge”
Asked about the transfer, Tomasa Hernández has recognized that it is a “complex” but “possible” process and has been referred to the different judicial resolutions. Having “exact knowledge” of the paintings will contribute, in your opinion, to facilitate the operation. In legal key, he stressed that the MNAC and the institutions involved have “very limited” roads to oppose the definitive execution of the sentence and “do not give the cases” in which the hypothetical claims can prosper. On a hypothetical case of disobedience, Aragon could execute “at their expense.”
