RETABLO MAYOR DE LA PARROQUIA DE SAN ANTONIO ABAD

The main altarpiece comes from the disappeared convent of Adeje, and occupies the entire head of the temple. It is structured in two bodies and a bank, with three streets separated by pillars, polished and padded, presents a decoration from the second half of the 18th century with Chinese motifs. In the first body in three niches are the Cristo de la Salud, San Antonio Abad and the Virgen de la Concepci n. The superior has three paintings, the central one with the Crucifixi and the lateral ones with Santo Domingo and San Francisco. The primitive image of the saint is from the 17th century. The Christ of Health reproduces the triumphant Man of Dolores over death in the image and likeness of the Christ of Tacoronte. Attributed to L zaro Gonz lez de Ocampo, he was executed for the convent of clear nuns of San Jos de La Orotava between 1682 and 1691. It was bought together with the Virgin of Dolores in 1806, being Luis Herrera Cruz. His party became one of the main and his image in the most revered. the Virgen de la Concepci n was made by Francisco García de Medina, a Palmer imagery born at the end of the 17th century, donated to the temple by the artist, already inventoried in 1767. In correspondence with the ideology illustrated by the visitor Domingo Albertos in 1794 he placed it in the sacristy so that several images of Mar a.

The two lateral altarpieces come from the parish of Santa Ursula de Adeje. While this one was left with two of greater size of the convent, it got rid of these, that you transfer to Arona. The...