Rone No. 1

PD Sweden

Results: 53 records

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - 3 figures

This scene is difficult to identify.three figures the one on the left is full frontal, wearing a tunic, right hand to the chest, the left holds an object - acanthus palm (angel?) The figure to the right, haloed, wears a short tunic - may be in a gesture of blessing? In the centre, the figure in the centre is much taller, right hand raised, left hand down holding a large object

Scene Description: This scene is difficult to identify.three figures the one on the left is full frontal, wearing a tunic, right hand to the chest, the left holds an object - acanthus palm (angel?) The figure to the right, haloed, wears a short tunic - may be in a gesture of blessing? In the centre, the figure in the centre is much taller, right hand raised, left hand down holding a large object

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity

The Virgin lies diagonally with head to the left of the composition. A servant holds the child showing it to the world just behind the bed of the virgin. To the far right sits Joseph resting his head in his one hand. He is bearded but no hat or halo.

Scene Description: The Virgin lies diagonally with head to the left of the composition. A servant holds the child showing it to the world just behind the bed of the virgin. To the far right sits Joseph resting his head in his one hand. He is bearded but no hat or halo.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

B03: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

The Baptism of Christ. Christ stands in water to the waist (shown as round carved dots) to the left. To the right stands St.John the Baptist with his left arm across the chest of Christ and his right resting on top of his head. Both figures are haloed.

Scene Description: The Baptism of Christ. Christ stands in water to the waist (shown as round carved dots) to the left. To the right stands St.John the Baptist with his left arm across the chest of Christ and his right resting on top of his head. Both figures are haloed.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi takes place over two arches. In the first are the two magi, walking from left to right, in profile, haloed, bearing gifts. The first, to the far left, has his hands covered with a cloth. In the second arch, the last maji, kneeling right hand raised toward the virgin. Holds a gift. The Virgin sitting on altar like bench, right hand close to the magi and holds child which has been broken off (was sitting to the far right side of her).

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - two magi

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Presentation of the Christ-child in the temple

Presentation in the Temple. There are three figures, one to the left with long gown, long braids. The middle figure wears a tunic and holds the child who sits on an altar-like table. The middle figure is haloed.

Scene Description: Presentation in the Temple. There are three figures, one to the left with long gown, long braids. The middle figure wears a tunic and holds the child who sits on an altar-like table. The middle figure is haloed.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Crucifixion. Christ full frontal, parallel. To the left, under the arm, soldier with a lance, and to the right side, under the arm, a figure croaching, head bent down.

Scene Description: Crucifixion. Christ full frontal, parallel. To the left, under the arm, soldier with a lance, and to the right side, under the arm, a figure croaching, head bent down.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

B07: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Resurrection of Christ - Christ rises from the grave - Christ seated on his tomb

Three figures, two on the left, haloed and carrying or holding something in their hands - the right half of the composition has a throne, two bars, each side a cross, the left cross taller - seated figures, haloed and pointing with right arm diagonally upward.

Scene Description: Three figures, two on the left, haloed and carrying or holding something in their hands - the right half of the composition has a throne, two bars, each side a cross, the left cross taller - seated figures, haloed and pointing with right arm diagonally upward.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

BU01: human figure - seated

BU02: human figure - seated

BU03: human figure - seated

BU04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - one magus

BU05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - one magus

BU06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - one magus

BU07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - enthroned figure of Christ?

BU08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - enthroned figure of Virgin Mary?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

angel - Seraphim

the elements that decorate the spandrels of the arcade are badly damaged and eroded, but some outlines are still discernible enough to make out their identities: this one a seraphim, with upper wings extended, lower wings folded

Scene Description: the elements that decorate the spandrels of the arcade are badly damaged and eroded, but some outlines are still discernible enough to make out their identities: this one a seraphim, with upper wings extended, lower wings folded

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - passant

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

animal?

Scene Description: the elements that decorate the spandrels of the arcade are badly damaged and eroded, but some outlines are still discernible enough to make out their identities: this one appears to be the torso of a bear (?) holding up and object

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Arcade characteristic of this workshop, the arches very wide, the archheads decorated in the centre, the supporting columns very short, etc.

Scene Description: Arcade characteristic of this workshop, the arches very wide, the archheads decorated in the centre, the supporting columns very short, etc.

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - interlace

Scene Description: the elements that decorate the spandrels of the arcade are badly damaged and eroded, but some outlines are still discernible enough to make out their identities: this one is an interlace of difficult description, like a pedestal with wings, that appears on some of the works of this artist or workshop

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

view of basin

Image Source: digital image of drawings by A. Ericson in Roosval (2017: fig. 30,31)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "funten har sannolikt bestått av två delar, men endast cuppan är bevarad; den har åtta arkader"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F5] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin

only the basin remains of this font -- seen here in June 1997 in the remote storage warehouse of the Statens Historiska Museet of Stockholm

Scene Description: only the basin remains of this font -- seen here in June 1997 in the remote storage warehouse of the Statens Historiska Museet of Stockholm

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F5] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F5] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F5] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F5] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1997 by BSI

view of basin - projection

Image Source: digital image of drawings by A. Ericson in Roosval (2017: fig. 32)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of basin - underbowl - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F5] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - underbowl - projection

Image Source: digital image of drawings by A. Ericson in Roosval (2017: fig. 33)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - south view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rone kyrka [...] Kyrkomiljö"

Image Source: digital image [dbg20206[ of a 20 July 1996 by Jan Norrman, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rone_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000300024426.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.5

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital image [521-12.TIF] of a 1915 B&W photograph by Einar Erici, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rone_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200025985.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rone kyrka 1874"

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in A.T. Gellerstedt's "Märkligare Svenska Kyrkor" (Stockholm: Kjellberg & Åström; 1874) (1874) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rone_kyrka_-_Märkligare_svenska_kyrkor_-_0011.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of church interior - baptismal dish

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rone kyrka [...] Dopfat av mässing, 1500-tal, tyskt arbete."

Image Source: digital image [521-129.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph by Oskar Vilhelm Wennersten, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rone_kyrka_-_KMB_-_160002000261296186.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church interior - chancel - east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital image [521-72.TIF] of an undated [between 1 January 1907 and 31 December 1912] B&W photograph by Carl R. af Uglass, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rone_kyrka_-_KMB_-_160002000261295985.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - north side - sacristy - doorway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - reredos - west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of church interior - window

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Rone kyrka [...] Dopfunt, troligen ett verk av stenmästaren Hegvald, 1100-tal."

Image Source: digital image [521-127.TIF] of a 1915 B&W photograph by Johnny Roosval, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rone_kyrka_-_KMB_-_160002000261296184.jpg] [accessed 24 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden

view of font in context

Scene Description: the 17thC font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 May 2023 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00013RON

Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only)

Museum and Inventory Number: Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm

Church/Chapel: Rone kyrka [the basin is now in a museum]

Church Patron Saints: St. James

Church Location: address of the church: Rone, 623 47 Hemse, Gotland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Rone is located off local road I527 [aka Ronehamnsvägen], 6 km SE of Hemse, on the SE of the island, about 22 km ENE of Burgsvik

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Alva, Hemse och Rone församling

Historical Region: Gotlands södra härad, Hemse ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hegvald / Hegwald / Hegwald Posthumous [Roosval]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are garteful for the generous and friendly assistance of Lennart Karlsson and the staff at the Statens Historiska Museum in Stockholm for the access to the Museum's storage facilities to document this basin

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Roosval (1917). In Lagerlöf & Stolt (1973). Noted and illustrated in the SHM’s database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 950517F5] as a "Hegval" baptismal font nade of sandstone in the mid-12th century. On-site notes: this basin is now [June 1997] kept in the Statens Historiska Museum's storage unit, in Stockholm. The base no longer exists. Roosval (1918: 67ff) mentions it in his inventory of the museum, and gives the ornamentation as containing scenes of the Nativity, Christ's baptism, the three Magi approaching an enthroned Christ. Roosval gives the fonts at Nar, Endre, Sjonhem as cognates. Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. VI, hft. 5: 404-40, 446) describes and illustrates "three blocks of sandstone built into the back of the present altar, all with reliefs in circular frames: a griffin, a centaur, and a man with a whisk (?) in his right hand [...]. Parts of a carved circle can be seen on all the stones , which may indicate that, joined together, they may have formed tha base of font or piscina." [NB: a second font -cf. Index entry for Rone No. 2], dated to the mid-17th century, replaced the medieval font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.208972, 18.441347

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 12′ 32.3″ N, 18° 26′ 28.85″ E

UTM: 34V 345461 6343550

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: one (basin only)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted) [base missing]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: There is a large drainage hole in the centre of the bowl.

Rim Thickness: 6-8.5 cm**

Diameter (inside rim): 62 cm* / 58-61 cm**

Diameter (includes rim): 78 cm* / 74-75 cm**

Height of Basin Side: 30 cm* / 25 cm**

Basin Total Height: 49 cm* / 48 cm**

Height of Base: [missing]

Notes on Measurements: * Roosval (1917: 27) / ** BSI on-site (basin only)

REFERENCES

Fåhraeus, Fredrik, "Dopfuntarna, deras tillbehör och placering på Gotland under medeltiden. En inventering.", Stockholm, 1974

Lundmark, Efraim, Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland, Stockholm: G. Tisell, 1925-1990

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984

Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918

Roosval, Johnny, Dopfuntar i Statens Historiska Museum, 1917

Stenström, Tore, "Problem rörande Gotlands medeltida dopfuntar", Umeå, 1975

Stolt, Bengt, Medeltida teater och gotländsk kyrkokonst: paralleller och påverkningar, Visby: Ödins förlag, 1993

Tuulse, Armin, Romansk konst i Norden, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1968