It all started on June 21 with the announcement of the Makaren brothers, 17,000 members who organized the processions on a passionate Friday, in which the Holy Virgin is transferred along the streets of the Andaluz city every year under the eyes of tens of thousands of believers. The fraternity proudly declared in the communique that the statue would be again launched in its church on a high altar after a three -day “preservation of work”. The expectations were large.
And then: the believers were amazed when they saw the result of the intervention. The company of the face was clearly lit, his eyes shone as never before. Instead of grief on her face, the Mother of God seemed almost cheerful, despite tears under the eyes. They allow huge eyelashes to look as if they had an impact on a visit to a disco. Photos passed through networks like running fire. The process was not long.
“When I saw the photos, I believed that it was a fun made with artificial intelligence,” said the service of short messages X. There were talk about unsuccessful, outrage and imposition. “Guap, Guapa and Guapa” – “beautiful, beautiful and beautiful”, they call her on the procession, but there was too much what the restorer did.
This is a scandal for the pious and not so pious supporters of Makara – a figure that means not only faith, but also for regional patriotism and connection with Seville. “The brotherhood understands and shares the concerns of the brothers and believers. Therefore, it acted with caution and technical criteria to correct unknown aesthetic disorders, ”he apologized to the commander and sent the statue of Marien – formally overnight – two more quick interventions in the seminar. Soon after, she is again exhibited with shorter eyelashes.
Nevertheless, critical voices did not lead to the fact that these emergency operations were silent. On the contrary: “They say everything from several eyelashes. No, this is not because of a pair of eyelashes, but because of the prayer of your parents, your most intimate memories, your feelings and childhood, ”explains Charo Padilla, a journalist and the only woman who still kept the initial speech in Seville, which many feel in Seville in sight of Macaran.
Spontaneous rally
“You injured what we love the most. Now we must show this love more than when, and ask you to take responsibility, ”a spontaneous rally in front of the church was caused on social networks. Hundreds were found and asked about the resignation of the Board of Directors of the Brotherhood.
The statue of Makara is a thread of the 17th century of unknown origin. In 1964, he was canonically crowned, and in the presence of the Spanish dictator “Generalissimus” Francisco Franco, his wife and daughter in the main altar, where she is still today. This was one of the last ceremonial events of the Spanish national Catholicism in Franco. In 1971, the mayor of the city of Franquist Juan Fernandez Rodriguez awarded her gold medal from Seville, and in 2024 she honored Mad Francis.
“To conduct an intervention in Macarena Virgin is like an intervention in the nature of Seville,” explains Maria Fidalgo, the art doctor at the University of Seville and a member of the Andaluz Academy of History for the Spanish press. “You have completely changed your face,” she adds. “The Chairman of the Brotherhood must commit and go down Harakiri,” the judge of the scientist. But this is waiting. Until now, only a brother responsible for preserving the cultural heritage was thrown by Sutan and pointed hat.
What the Brotherhood calls “preservation and maintenance and maintenance began in May 2024. At that time, the association was entrusted with the 85-year-old professor Francisco Arkillo Torres, who in recent years launches important Spanish artists, such as Goya and Picasso, with the study of the state of their makara. Hands, and this is precisely the problem for the professional world.
“Cleaning polychrome paint is much more than just preservation,” criticizes Pedro Mansano, which Pedro Mansano criticizes work on a cork. “If you clean the picture, you will also restore it, and this requires more than a week of work,” adds a specialist in preserving and restoring church art. Like most of his colleagues, he cannot understand how something like this is done in three days. Normal months for such work.
A detailed exam should have been made for this. The approval of the management of the monument and the archbishopric, as well as the creation of a technical specialized committee to monitor the entire recovery process, is also required. This is exactly what is now ahead. After the first study at the Andaluz Institute of Historical Heritage, Maria Santisima de la Esperanes Macaren Coronada returned to her church and waits for a final long -term one – and, I hope, better – recovery. The statue is inevitable.
