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Descriptive text: The Ezcaray Retablo Conservation Project. After more than a year of intensive conservation treatment, Griswold Conservation Associates has installed the Ezcaray Retablo in its new permanent home in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. Many square feet of old restorations have been carefully removed to reveal the original guilding and painted estofado decoration, remarkably well preserved after over 300 years. Flaking and crumbling portions have been stabilized, and inappropriate additions have been removed. The sculpture and other elements have been secured to a specially built mounting system to help support the piece seismically. Conservation work continues under the direction of conservator John Griswold. The final stages of "loss compensation" are underway, where the most distracting areas of missing gold and paint are subtly reintegrated using reversible inpaintng techniques. The project was made possible with funding by the Getty Trust. Brian Considine, Chief of Decorative Arts Conservation at the J. Paul Getty Museum, contributed expertise and scientific analysis. The installation crew was provided by FAE International and Dean & Associates.