Urtasun affirms that the judgment of the Supreme Court that endorses the return of the murals of Sijena | Culture | EUROtoday

The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, mentioned Wednesday that the judgment of the Supreme Court should be complied with and abide by the National Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) has to return the wall work of the monastery of Sijena, primarily based in Huesca. This has been Urtasun’s response to the Junts parliamentarian, Josep Maria Cruset, throughout the management session to the Government within the Congress of Deputies. The Aragon Government has despatched two letters to the Minister and the Board of Trustees of the Museum to facilitate the return of the wall work of the Monastery of Sijena after the Supreme Court judgment that orders it.

The Supreme Court issued on May 27 a sentence wherein it established that the work of the Chapter Room of the Monastery of Villanueva de Sijena (Huesca) needed to return to the Oscense monastery the place they have been rescued in 1936 after the hearth that nearly destroyed this necessary spiritual and cultural heart throughout the first days of the civil battle. The High Court corroborated two different earlier sentences, issued by the Court of First Instance of Huesca and the Provincial Court of Huesca, which gave the rationale to the arguments introduced by the Government of Aragon, on behalf of the nuns of the order of San Juan, house owners of the monastery, and denied the arguments defended by the MNAC.

In his speech, Urtasun mentioned that National Heritage doesn’t rely on the Ministry of Culture (it’s an company connected to the presidency of the Government), after which align with what was affirmed by the president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Salvador Illa, additionally favorable to the choice of the Supreme.

The Minister of Culture has superior on Wednesday that the Heritage Technicians and the Board of Trustees will meet on Monday, June 16 to “decide how this is executed”, and has endorsed the dedication of the Ministry of Culture to Catalan tradition.

This sentence assumes that Sikena will as soon as once more have this 1200 masterpiece, distinctive instance of Hispanic medieval artwork, to exhibit them within the monastery chapter room. It is not only in regards to the danger that supposes, because the reviews that the MNAC has enforced, that the work irreparably undergo with their switch, however the change of location, of a primary -class museum to a constructing that has not completed its rehabilitation course of, alters the environmental situations that protect it. From the Aragon authorities they make sure that the situations of the room are unbeatable.

Josep Maria Cruset has affirmed that “culture is born of brave decisions at critical moments,” which served to switch Urtasun that “one is leading one right now.” The Catalan deputy has defended that “almost 100 years ago that Catalonia rescued the paintings” of the Chapter Room of the Royal Monastery of Santa María de Sijena, and “now the tentacles of Spanish Spanishism threaten those paintings.” After indicating that the technicians have discovered that “starting them is to condemn them to irreparable damage,” Cruset has requested for the the explanation why different works of Sijena which might be within the National Museum of the Prado or Toledo have been claimed: “The answer is clear: what touches is humiliate to Catalonia.” And then inform Urtasun to determine whether or not “on the side of the cultural barbarians or if she will support the culture in capital letters.”

He president Salvador Illa has careworn on Wednesday that he’ll assist every thing that the MNAC Board of Trustees decides. “The MNAC has done and is doing a magnificent job. There is a sentence that must be respected, but they have all my support. I say it because I have told the president and the counselor,” Illa mentioned that he defined broadly the dialog “of 30 seconds” that he held on Friday with Jorge Azcón, president of Aragon on the presidents convention held in Barcelona. “He asked me and I told him that I have the habit of respecting the sentences,” he revealed in an interview in Rac 1.

Illa has denied that he doesn’t have a transparent place on Sijena and visibly annoying has rejected accusations about an alleged plunder. “The sentence tells the MNAC to ship the works and he has to say what he thinks. I cannot let it speak badly in Catalonia and the MNAC. There was no plunder or something like that. We will fulfill the sentence, however right here a piece of conservation of these work was completed that with out him at the moment they weren’t going to be. And which have been agreed and revered and by no means revered and by no means the MNAC has put into query the propriety of them.