THE RELIEFS OF THE MAIN ALTAR OF SAN MARTIN

ALTERATIONS 

The reliefs and figures in the Calvary have been subjected to several conservation-restoration and maintenance interventions over the last few years. The first time the Calvary figures were cleaned was in 1998, coinciding with the Merchants and Money-changers Fair held in the Fair Museum. In 2006, a company by the name of Alfagía Conservación de Bienes Culturales carried out the complete restoration of the altarpiece under the supervision of the Valladolid County Council, complete with the dismounting of the altarpiece, anti-xylophagous treatment, consolidation of the support and pictorial layers, cleaning, elimination of re-paintings, chromatic reintegration and a final, protective layer of varnish being applied to panel paintings. The centre niches on the predella and first horizontal level were also made then. The appears of the altarpiece is as follows: the niche destined to hold the figure of the saint to whom the altarpiece was dedicated today houses a Renaissance figure of a Holy Virgin with Infant that has absolutely no connection with the original altarpiece.

The reliefs on the pradella are quite severely deteriorated: their incarnations show a great deal of wear and, in some cases, have completely disappeared. Sgraffito and polychrome re-decoration shows signs of scratches and grazes in several places.