The Museum of the Roman Theatre of Cartagena has organized for Good Friday afternoon a route on the great sculptor José Capuz.
The route will begin at 18 am in the temporary exhibition hall with a visit to the sample A Divinis.
The classic model Capuz sculpture, hand the curator of the exhibition, José Francisco López Martínez, Senior Technical Cultural and General Commissioner of the Marraja Brotherhood, who then continue to visit the church of Santa Maria de Gracia, to contemplate the religious images Capuz before the start of the procession.
The exhibition A Divinis is a journey through the influence of classical models in the work of Capuz.
The exhibition space of the Museum of Roman Theatre offers a stage for developing these constant references to the classical world present in the sculptural work of Capuz, and are visible in both classic and religious images.
So it was with the use of plaster cast of a classical bust of s.
II d.
C. to produce the image of San Juan Evangelista Marraja commissioned by the Brotherhood of Cartagena, where beyond the clear use of the model, Capuz underlying interest in the classical world and the symbolic values ​​that transposition of the Greco-Roman pantheon iconography Christian has contributed since the origin of sacred art.
The visit continues inside the church of Santa Maria de Gracia, to make the journey by religious images Capuz participating in the procession of the Holy Burial on the night of Friday, organized by the Royal and Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Father Jesus of Nazareth (Marrajos), the oldest of Cartagena.
Inside the church you can contemplate the Blessed Virgin of Mercy 1925, 1926 recumbent Christ, the Descent, 1930, Our Lady of Solitude, 1943, San Juan Evangelista, 1943, and the Contractor Guild, Nuestro Padre Jesus Nazareno, 1945.
Information and bookings: Museum of the Roman Theatre in Cartagena.
Plaza del Ayuntamiento n ° 9. Phone 968 50 48 02, Fax: 968 December 48 65. Email: fundacion@teatroromanocartagena.org
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena