Voces del Prado

Artistic Sensibility and Cultural Wealth

María Teresa Dávila Álvarez, Restorer, 1982-2013

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.