THE ALTARPIECES OF DE LA CANDELARIA IN GUARENAS AND DEL ROSARIO CHAPELS IN SAN JACINTO DE CARACAS CHURCH: A GRAPHIC METHOD TO ESTABLISH THEIR HISTORIC RELATION

Abstract

In order to record and document the Venezuelan cultural heritage and to continue the process of virtual restoration of architectural heritage and disappeared initiated in a previous investigation in 2011, the following work presents an approach to the possible original location of an altarpiece, according to tradition, it belonged to the Church of the convent of San Jacinto in Caracas in the eighteenth century, through digital techniques currently available. Such altarpiece, located in the late nineteenth century, after the demolition of the convent, in the Chapel of the Candelaria in Guarenas —a village on the outskirts of the capital— is made by combining fragments of three other former altarpieces, the most of whom had originally placed in one of the aisles of the temple disappeared from Caracas. The proposed methodology studies the geometry and shape of the piece to make assumptions about their initial location within the virtual space of the Church of San Jacinto eighteenth century. This process is complemented by checking perspective and digital techniques such as Augmented Reality, allowing us to verification in situ.