LOS GOZOS DE SAN RAMÓN NONATO Y EL RETABLO PINTADO DE LA ERMITA DE LA CONCEPCIÓN DE CEHEGÍN (MURCIA)

Abstract

There are examples of decorative painting in Murcia in the religious,field as well as in the civil andproofofthis are the mural paintings that we find in the villages of Cehegin and Caravaca towards the end of fhe 18^th century.This was a practice that had been habitual since the 16^th century in the region and an example of this is the altarpiece of the hermitage of Saint Sebastian de Caravaca in the moment of maximum splendour when the ilalian painter Pablo Sistori arrived in Murcia in the second half of fhe 18^th century. In this line we can include the mural paintings of the altarpiece, copied,from the chapel of San Juan de Letran, in the hermitage of the Concepcion de Cehegin, at the end of the 18^th century, dedicated to Saint Roman Nonato in which the life and pleasures of the saint are represented in the iconographical programme. Similarly where are some mural paintings thaf we find in fhe so-called Palace of the Fajardo in the same locality, with heraldic emblems and a small altar above which there is a canvas of the Virgin.