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Patience and Observation
Rocío Dávila Álvarez, Restorer, 1974-2015Patience and Observation
Rocío Dávila Álvarez, Restorer, 1974-2015
I don’t know; I think it’s a question of character. The restorer has a certain type of character, although each one of us is very different. I’ve always loved manual things, things done with intelligence. This has given me patience. One good thing about restoration is that, although I may never stop talking, I’m really very quiet. Restoration allows you to get inside the work and helps you to forget a little about everything. It makes you look inside yourself; it’s about a relationship between yourself and the work. This also helps you to see other things; perhaps it makes you more observant. That’s one of the beautiful things about restoration.
She joined the Museo del Prado at a time when the Restoration Workshop was being reorganized, then becoming head of the same from 2003 to 2007.
Interview recorded on December 12, 2017
Interview index
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1974: The First Female Art Restorers -
An Article in ABC -
The Restoration Workshop in the 1970’s -
A Different Criterion for Restoration -
At the Service of the Artwork -
Working in Tandem with My Sister -
Don Xavier de Salas and don Alfonso Pérez Sánchez -
Knowledge Millimetre by Millimetre -
Two Cases: Christ Crucified and The Spinners by Velázquez -
Painters and Ways of Working -
The Prado Today and Yesteryear -
Celebrities at the Workshop: Buero Vallejo and Antonio López -
A Rich Legacy Built by All -
I Don’t Want to Be a Restorer When I Visit the Museum -
Patience and Observation
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- Restoration
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Collective
Restoration
Rafael Alonso Alonso
Restorer, 1978-2016
José Manso Gómez
Textile and Panel Painting Conservator, 1953-1992
María Teresa Dávila Álvarez
Restorer, 1982-2013
George Bisacca
Restorer, 1985-What's on
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Voces del Prado