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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - The Holy Family returning to Israel - arrival in Israel

Joseph walks to the right of the horse, stands frontal, holds bridle in his right hand and gestures with his left hand. The Madonna sits frontal, side saddle on the horse with the infant in her arms. The child is blond and touches his mother's chin with his right hand. On either side of the pair are demi-angels, mirror-image, inside hands gesturing toward the pair on the horse, outer hands holding their mantle. No star present.

Scene Description: Joseph walks to the right of the horse, stands frontal, holds bridle in his right hand and gestures with his left hand. The Madonna sits frontal, side saddle on the horse with the infant in her arms. The child is blond and touches his mother's chin with his right hand. On either side of the pair are demi-angels, mirror-image, inside hands gesturing toward the pair on the horse, outer hands holding their mantle. No star present.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - The Holy Family returning to Israel - arrival in Israel - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - The Holy Family returning to Israel - arrival in Israel - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - The Holy Family returning to Israel - arrival in Israel - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - The Holy Family returning to Israel - arrival in Israel - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12

Scene Description: The twelve apostles stand, frontal around the basin sides; only Peter shows his symbol, a large key, as well as a book; one other holds a board or scroll; one other holds a book. All are haloed and are making speaking gestures. Some of them have their faces in profile addressing each other, other look directly at the viewer - related to some sermon? The first inscription, is over the first apostle to right of Joseph - it says "SIMO". The next inscription appears to identigy Jude"; the next has "SIA", perhaps for Iacobus/James;; then "SOA"; then, perhaps, "EN?PAV" for Paul?; then "US?"; then, "DEV"? some figures have no isncription above them

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Judas Thaddeus?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and book

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Simon?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - holding book - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - holding book - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

the figure holds a flat board or scroll in his right hand, across the lower part of his body; not one of the usual symbols associated with one of the Twelve

Scene Description: the figure holds a flat board or scroll in his right hand, across the lower part of his body; not one of the usual symbols associated with one of the Twelve

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH01: human figure - male - head - long hair

Scene Description: on the east side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH01: human figure - male - head - long hair - bearded - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: human figure - male - head - long hair

Scene Description: on the north side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: human figure - male - head - long hair - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH02: human figure - male - head - long hair - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: human figure - male - head - long hair - bearded

Scene Description: on the west side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH03: human figure - male - head - long hair - bearded - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: human figure - male - head - long hair - bearded

Scene Description: on the south side of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: human figure - male - head - long hair - bearded - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBH04: human figure - male - head - long hair - bearded - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS01: symbol - tree - Tree of life - with 2 birds, 1 stag and winged monster

on the northeast side of the base, lower end; an acanthus plant with two birds on its top branches. Next to it is a four legged animal facing left, holding an upside down bird or winged animal in its mouth.

Scene Description: on the northeast side of the base, lower end; an acanthus plant with two birds on its top branches. Next to it is a four legged animal facing left, holding an upside down bird or winged animal in its mouth.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS01: symbol - tree - Tree of life - with 2 birds, 1 stag and winged monster - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS01: symbol - tree - Tree of life - with 2 birds, 1 stag and winged monster - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS02: animal - mammal - quadruped - 2 - personified

on the northwest side of the base. The upper part holds two animal sitting, facing each other, the one on the left has something at the back of the neck and carries a bishop's staff in his right hand; the one on the right possibly a sheep or ram. Under the two animals, and separated by hanging rope, there is a dog facing right, jaws open, collared and from the collar is a leash that is being held by a figure to the right on the other side of the base. It is a man full frontal, wearing a 3/4 mantle, gown, and boots. In the left hand points at the next scene which is the stag. Check to see what tale is being depicted. The two heads (bearded ) look askance not directly outward like the other two.

Scene Description: on the northwest side of the base. The upper part holds two animal sitting, facing each other, the one on the left has something at the back of the neck and carries a bishop's staff in his right hand; the one on the right possibly a sheep or ram. Under the two animals, and separated by hanging rope, there is a dog facing right, jaws open, collared and from the collar is a leash that is being held by a figure to the right on the other side of the base. It is a man full frontal, wearing a 3/4 mantle, gown, and boots. In the left hand points at the next scene which is the stag. Check to see what tale is being depicted. The two heads (bearded ) look askance not directly outward like the other two.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS02: animal - mammal - quadruped - 2 - personified - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS02: animal - mammal - quadruped - 2 - personified - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS03: human figure - male - with leashed dog

Scene Description: on the southwest side of the base; man wearing a knee-length tunic, passant, to the right, with dog on a leash, also passant

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS03: human figure - male - with leashed dog

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS03: human figure - male - with leashed dog

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS04: animal - mammal - dog - biting stag

on the southeast side of the base; a stag faces right, head raised and antlers back, tongue out; it is being bitten on the neck by a hunting dog with a collar facing left.

Scene Description: on the southeast side of the base; a stag faces right, head raised and antlers back, tongue out; it is being bitten on the neck by a hunting dog with a collar facing left.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

LBS04: animal - mammal - dog - biting stag

Scene Description: the dog is a domestic hunting canine, collared

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: double thread on the rope: thick and thin, the latter enhanced here by having been painted

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

design element - motifs - scroll

Scene Description: a combination of large ones and samller ones in the spandrels created by the large ones

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 20 August 2012

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 20 August 2012

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of field-notes taken 20 August 2012

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

inscription

Scene Description: rubbing of inscription [not yet transcribed]

Image Source: digital image of a rubbing made by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910503F3] [accessed 10 April 2021]

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910503F3] [accessed 10 April 2021]

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910503F3] [accessed 10 April 2021]

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view of base - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910503F3] [accessed 10 April 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910503F3] [accessed 10 April 2021]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910503F3] [accessed 10 April 2021]

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view of basin - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: no visible drain hole

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal

Scene Description: opening into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Scene Description: opening into the chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: with the lychgate in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 27 May 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Scene Description: a recycled stone used now as step in the southwest entrance; is it a former font lower base or plinth?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest portal - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of church interior - Holy Rood

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel - doorway

view of church interior - chancel - doorway - tympanum

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - column - capital - detail

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910503F3] [accessed 10 April 2021]

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view of font - east side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - east-northeast side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - east-southeast side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - north northeast side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - north northwest side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - north side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - south and southeast side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - south and southwest side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - south side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - west side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font - west southwest side

Scene Description: orientation approximate

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2012 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 6 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 00047FOL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Fole kyrka

Church Location: Fole kyrkby, 621 75 Visby, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 498 22 27 00

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Located off local road I648, between county roads 147 (S) and 148 (N), 10-12 km ENE of Visby

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift

Historical Region: Gotlands norra härad, Bro ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: In the centre of a double nave between the two centre columns east of the chancel.

Date: ca. 1200? [Roosval]

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Calcarius [SK, SHM]

Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar to the font at nearby Bro

Church Notes: tower ca. 1200; present church 13thC, consecrated 1280; modified 19thC

Font Notes: Click to view

In Roosval (1918). In Strömbom (1942). Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. I, hft. 3: 310-315) as a limestone cylindrical mounted baptismal font from the Calcarius workshop and dated to ca. 1200 by Roosval; the cylindrical basin has a scene of the Flight to Egypt and figures of the Apostles above a lower rim with rope motif. The base is cylindrical with four protruding heads and several scenes between the heads. Listed in Drake (2002: 183) as a baptismal font of the Calcarius workshop. Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910503F3] as a baptismal font made of limestone in the first half of the 13th century by Calcarius; painted 1707. On-site notes: cylindrical mounted font by the Calcarius master of Gotland. The basin is painted in bright colours and contains a scene of the Flight to Egypt; also the 12 Apostles, all of them represented as standing haloed figures; some are identified by their names carved on the rim above; Peter holds a large key; several hold boks. The cylindrical base is, like many of these Scandinavian fonts adorned with an upper ring and protruding heads; between the heads can be found: a man walking a dog on a leash; above them, two animals personified, the one on the left wearing a hood and holding a staff, sit face to face; a dog biting a stag; a tree of life with two birds, a stag and a winged monster (?). The font is raised on a round modern plinth. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.650592, 18.544836

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 39′ 2.13″ N, 18° 32′ 41.41″ E

UTM: 34V 353485 6392463

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: two (plus later lower base or plinth)

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: drain reported in the SHM entry / no lining

Rim Thickness: 9-10.5 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 60-61 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 79-80 cm* / 80 cm**

Basin Depth: 37-40 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 36-37 cm*

Basin Total Height: 48 cm*

Height of Base: 50 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 98 cm* / **

Font Height (with Plinth): 110-111 cm* [modern plinth]

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-ste / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910503F3]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: The exterior inscription is only partly legible and appears to be connected with the figures on the basin side; above one figure is the word "SIMO" (?), perhaps for Simon; the next has "N[middle dot]IVDA"; the next appears to start with "IA", perhaps for Iacobus/James; several others are illegible

Inscription Location: The carved inscription is on the outside upper rim of the basin - a later (?) inscription is painted in Gothic lettering on the inside of the basin

Inscription Text: "SIMO / N-IVDA / IA[?]" [cf. InscriptionNotes] [tentative rubbing made of the carved inscription on-site - to be transcribed]

Inscription Source: on-site

REFERENCES

Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002

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

Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932

Roosval, Johnny, Den gotländske ciceronen: vägvisare genon den gotländska konsthistorianmed huvudvikten lagd på medeltida kyrkokunst, Stockholm: Gotlands turistföreningen, 1926, 1950

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

Strömbom, Ragnhild, "Calcarius, en gotländsk stenhuggareverkstad under 1100-talets slut och 1200-talets förra hälft", XI-XIII (1942-1944), Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1942-1944