Academic literature on the topic 'Castilblanco'

It was less than a year since the Second Spanish Republic had been founded. In early December 1931 parliament, which had become the focal point of national politics with the elections to the Constituent Assembly, accepted the new constitution by an overwhelming majority after three months of lively debate, and elected the first democratic state president. In mid-December the right-wing Radical Party withdrew from the Republican/Socialist coalition, which was an advantage for the reform programme advocated by premier Manuel Azaña, and seemed to pave the way for reforms to be forced through. These were aimed, above all, at modernising the economy, establishing social justice in rural areas, continuing the process of democratisation and developing federal, decentralised structures. However, the first parliamentary session of the new year, with the new government, was certainly not dominated by the reform measures fought for with such determination. Rather the central theme of the opening session was a bloody incident in a small place in the south-west region of Extremadura which stirred up public opinion to an extreme degree in Spain during the first days of January 1932.

Las investigadoras del Centro de Intervención del IAPH tratan en este artículo los fenómenos de alteración biológica o biodeterioro de los bienes culturales constituidos por materiales de naturaleza orgánica, en concreto, la escultura en madera. Primero analizan las condiciones que favorecen el desarrollo de microorganismos distinguiendo los factores medioambientales y los biológicos, para continuar exponiendo los métodos de control del crecimiento de los agentes biológicos responsables del biodeterioro de las obras (métodos mecánicos, físicos, biológicos y químicos). Para la ilustración del texto, las autoras describen brebemente un ejemplo práctico llevado a cabo en las instalaciones del IAPH: el tratamiento de desinfección aplicado en el Cristo de los Vaqueros, imagen de la localidad sevillana de Castilblanco de los Arroyos