Las policromías en las fachadas ecijanasAproximación al inventario del color

Abstract

With this article, we want to show the current situation in which we can find the mural paintings remaining in the facades of houses, palaces and churches of the city of Écija. Throughout the Modern Age, the streets of the city presented a wide range of colors, developing throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the exuberant baroque decoration that, in some cases, has reached our days. The stylistic changes and the new hygienic rules emanated from the Enlightenment caused a significant number of these facades to be whitewashed. On the one hand, this allowed their preservation, but, on the other, since their existence was unknown, many of them disappeared when the facings were broken in rehabilitations carried out without proper monitoring by the competent authority. The work we present is, therefore, an approximation to the inventory of wall paintings: those which have been preserved or intervened, those which disappeared and others that appear under innumerable layers of lime.