The exhibition space in the MARQ Hall will display, from 17 April, a fragment of a Roman mural painting from the Villa de La Quintilla (Lorca, Murcia), which has been restored in the MARQ Restoration laboratories.
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The exhibition is the result of an agreement signed between the Provincial Council of Alicante, the CV-MARQ Foundation and the City Council of Lorca on 10 October 2011, and is sponsored by the Cajamurcia Foundation, in response to an initiative of the MARQ, following the earthquake that struck the town of Lorca on 11 May 2011 and with the aim of collaborating in the recovery of the historical and artistic assets of the city and the collections deposited in its Municipal Archaeological Museum, which suffered serious damage in the earthquake of May 2011.
FRAGMENT OF MURAL PAINTING FROM THE ROMAN VILLA OF LA QUINTILLA (LORCA, MURCIA) BEFORE ITS RESTORATION.
The Municipal Archaeological Museum of Lorca-MUAL, in response to this solidarity initiative of the MARQ, proposed the restoration of the mural painting plaque from the Roman villa of La Quintilla which, after being restored by the MARQ, will remain on display for three months in Alicante, joining room 7 of the MUAL, in Lorca, together with other samples of mural painting found in the aforementioned villa. An important collection that shows what the Roman pictorial decoration of the 2nd century A.D. was like in rural areas.
EXCAVATIONS IN THE ROMAN VILLA OF LA QUINTILLA (LORCA, MURCIA)
MARQ presents this piece in the usual format for exhibitions of outstanding pieces in the Museum's Foyer, accompanied by an audiovisual support that helps to understand its significance, together with the publication of a monographic catalogue as part of the MARQ publication series ".Around a piece".which deepens the knowledge of the piece itself and its archaeological context.
The publication on this occasion is structured in three sections. In the first chapter, Andrés Martínez Rodríguez, Director of the MUAL, Museo Arqueológico Municipal de Lorca, describes the Museum and its collections, as well as the damage suffered as a result of the serious earthquake of May 2011, especially with regard to the permanent exhibition, and how the new museum plan includes the appropriate mechanisms for the protection and safeguarding of the collections in order to prevent and minimise the damage caused by these natural phenomena.
A second block was devoted to the Roman mural painting of La Quintilla and its archaeological environment, prepared by the excavation team of the Roman villa: Alicia Fernández Díaz and Sebastian F. Ramallo Asensio, from the Archaeology Department of the University of Murcia and Andrés Martínez Rodríguez and Juana Ponce García, from the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Lorca.
Finally, Silvia Roca Alberola and Elena Santamarina Albertos, from the MARQ Restoration Laboratory, describe the process of consolidation, restoration and reconstruction of the fragment of mural painting now happily recovered.
PROCESS OF CLEANING, CONSOLIDATION AND RESTORATION OF THE FRAGMENT OF MURAL PAINTING FROM THE ROMAN VILLA OF LA QUINTILLA (LORCA, MURCIA)
The mural painting plaque on display at the MARQ, dated between the mid-1st and mid-2nd centuries AD, was part of the decoration of the Villa of La Quintilla, built on three terraces near the Guadalentín River which, like all Roman rural installations, consisted of a rustic part, used for agricultural work, and an urban part, used as a dwelling and equipped with baths.
FRAGMENT OF MURAL PAINTING FROM THE ROMAN VILLA OF LA QUINTILLA (LORCA, MURCIA) ONCE THE RESTORATION PROCESS HAS BEEN COMPLETED.
In the 2001 campaign, the remains of the walls of the corridor that connected the lower terrace building with the upper terrace building were recovered. These walls were decorated with white fresco painting with red, yellow, blue and green motifs, consisting of a base imitating marble, a central panel with a white background with animal and plant motifs (to which the fragment presented here corresponds) framed by red bands and, finally, a moulded stucco cornice.
Close to one of the most important roads of antiquity - the Via Augusta - the Villa of La Quintilla was one of the most important agricultural establishments of the ancient Roman provincial territory of Cartagho Nouaestablished between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD.
The Roman Villa of La Quintilla, one of the best known and most important in the region of Murcia, was discovered in 1876 and declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in 2004.
The archaeological excavation, carried out between 1981-1985 and 1998-2004, was part of the research project: "Carthago Noua and its territoriumThe project "Occupation patterns in southeastern Iberia between Late Republican and Late Antiquity" (HAR2008-06115) of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, partially subsidised with ERDF funds.
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