The National Museum of Art of Catalonia (MNAC) has presented this morning in the Court of Instruction number 2 of Huesca the incident of execution of sentence that approved to urge its patronage last week before the ruling of the Supreme Court that forces it to restore the Romanesque paintings of the thirteenth century to the monastery of Sijena. In this way, the museum puts the future of ancient murals in the hands of justice, rescued in 1936 and who have been restored, preserved and exhibited in the Barcelona gallery, integrating one of the best European collections on Romanesque art ..
Just as Romanesque murals tries to shield, the situation of profane paintings that are also part of the sentence, but were extracted in the sixties of the monastery of Sijena, considers different. “The risks of its manipulation and transfer are lower and the museum separates its reintegration process,” says the statement, arguing that these paintings were not victims of the fire suffered by the monastery during the beginning of the civil war.
The MNAC Board of Trustees, which integrates the Generalitat, the Ministry of Culture and the Barcelona City Council, tries to take the judicial battle carried out during the last decade. The court from which the primal sentence in 2016 left must meet different issues. . And the others, in the event that the Court confirmed the obligation of that transport, should respond to who should take responsibility for that risk, with what techniques and in what time calendar.
Next Thursday expires the voluntary term of execution of the sentence, confirmed first by the Huesca Court and finally by the Supreme Court. In parallel, a working group has been created in which technicians from the three Patronas del Mnac administrations have been incorporated, in addition to a specialist from the same museum and others pointed out by the Aragon government.
The intention is to achieve a technical consensus about the possibility of executing the restitution of the paintings in the monastery of Sijena, although in recent days there have been complaints of political interference in the process. A manifesto signed with around experts in conservation and restoration throughout Spain defends that the solution about the future of that work is stuck to technical and scientific criteria.
