1. The Rococo Furniture of the Sacristy of the Parish Church of Saints Justa and Rufina of Orihuela: the Carver Nicolas Porcel
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Cecilia Espinosa, M. M. and Ruiz Angel, M. G.
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Orihuela ,Escultura ,Sacristía ,Rococó - Abstract
©. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This document is the Published Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Res Mobilis. Revista internacional de investigación en mobiliario y objetos decorativos, Vol. 11, Nº. 14 To access the final edited and published work see DOI: 10.17811/rm.11.14.2022.66-78 En este artículo se estudia un extraordinario mobiliario sacro de estilo Rococó instalado en la sacristía de la parroquial de las Santas Justa y Rufina de Orihuela, diseñada por el arquitecto valenciano Jaime Bort, que pone en evidencia el apogeo de los talleres de tallistas existentes en la ciudad como continuadores de las sagas de retablistas que desde finales del siglo XVII iniciaron una destacada escuela interregional encabezada por la familia de los Caro, es el caso del autor de la obra que aquí se trata, un artista desconocido por la historiografía, Nicolás Porcel. This article studies an extraordinary Rococo style sacred art furniture, installed in the sacristy of the parish of Santas Justa and Rufina in the city of Orihuela. It was designed by the Valencian architect Jaime Bort, this piece of furniture highlights the heyday of the workshops that existed in the city, and these workshops were continuators of the saga of altarpieces that from the end of the seventeenth century started an outstanding interregional school headed by the family de los Caros, this is the case of the author of the work we are dealing with in this work, an artist unknown to historiography, Nicolas Porcel
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- 2022