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My name is María Teresa Dávila. I started working at the Museum in 1979, and I retired three years ago. In my family they imbued us with a great artistic sensibility from a very young age. Later on I went to a British school and, although we were quite modern in that respect, we had a Protestant reverend, a Catholic priest and those who followed the Jewish religion. So I grew up in a very cultural environment.
In a newspaper we read an article about the creation of this school, and a series of new art studies. So we came to the Casón to find out about it. And that’s how we did it. We had a certain manual facility and an artistic sensibility. We thought it was beautiful and we both did it at the same time.
She works as a restorer at the Museo del Prado, participating in major projects such as the restoration of Las Meninas in 1984, directed by John Brealey (from the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and the restoration of the Adam and Eve panels by Dürer.
Interview recorded on November 29, 2017
