Renedo de Valdavia

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B01: Old Testament - the time of Samson - the book of Judges - Samson - fighting a lion

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

B02: sacrament - baptism - blessing of the font

Scene Description: notice the design and decoration of the font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

B02: sacrament - baptism - blessing of the font - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

B03: Apostle or saint - St. George and the dragon

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - journey of the Wise men - arriving on horseback

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi. Under first arch to the far left, is a magi on horseback holding a gift in one hand. Under the second arch is a second Magi, on horseback, pointing toward the Madonna and Child. Under the third arch is a magi kneeling with a gift and you can see the head of his horse in the background. Under the fourth arch is the Madonna and Child. Under the fifth arch is Joseph who is standing holding the column with his right hand and a staff in his left hand

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings

Scene Description: Adoration of the Magi. Under first arch to the far left, is a magus on horseback holding a gift in one hand. Under the second arch is a second Magus, on horseback, pointing toward the Madonna and Child. Under the third arch is a magus kneeling with a gift and you can see the head of his horse in the background. Under the fourth arch is the Madonna and Child. Under the fifth arch is Joseph who is standing holding the column with his right hand and a staff in his left hand

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Madonna and Child - Joseph

Scene Description: detail of the Adoration of the Magi scene; the Magi are on the left of this view, in the three following arches to the left

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Joseph, Madonna and Child

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 June 1999 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - Joseph, Madonna and Child - detail

Scene Description: Madonna and Child in the left arch, Joseph in the right

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 June 1999 by BSI

B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - journey of the Wise men - arriving on horseback

Scene Description: the two mounted Magi, carrying gifts

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

B07: cleric - nun - in prayer

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

B08: cleric - in prayer

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: all around the sides of the basin, supported on columns with capitals and bases, and with motifs and/or symbols in the spandrels

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - in a circle - beaded-tape

Scene Description: a band of, around the upper basin side; the flowers are of varied types, but the beaded-tape background and circle is always the same

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: floral, triquetra, etc., in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

design element - motifs - groove

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

human figure?

Scene Description: four of them, one at each end of the square end of the lower base; the look like human demi-figures, facing the font, their arms extended and the hands holding to one of the roundels of the lower base

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

information

Image Source: field notes taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - in a circle

Scene Description: not clear whetehr they were intended to appear in all the little circles that occupy the 'spandrels' of the larger circled floral motifs; one here, above, to the left, has the Maltese cross clearly carved in it; the one to the left has a rougher incision

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of base - lower base - detail

Scene Description: another view of one of the corner figures

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the cut made to the upper side of the font to fit a lock for an old font cover

Image Source: detail of a photograph 3 June 1999 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: the two praying clerics

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: Note the 'damage' to the upper rim; this section may have been cut to accommodate a font cover or its hardware; the same is probably true of the 'nick' to the inner side of the rim.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renedo_de_Valdavia_002_Iglesia_San_Esteban.JPG] [accessed 4 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renedo_de_Valdavia_001_Iglesia_San_Esteban.JPG] [accessed 4 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renedo_de_Valdavia_009_Iglesia_San_Esteban.JPG] [accessed 4 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - retable

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renedo_de_Valdavia_005_Iglesia_San_Esteban.JPG] [accessed 4 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 June 1999 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 12 August 1997 by BSI

view of font - south side

Scene Description: showing the diameter measurements: inner +/- 75 cm; outer +/- 95 cm

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of font - southwest side

Scene Description: showing the height, just under 80 cm

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of font in context - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of font in context - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of font in context - northeast side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of font in context - northwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of font in context - south side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of font in context - southwest side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

view of stoup

Scene Description: a late-date stoup by the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2010 by Valdavia [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Renedo_de_Valdavia_003_Iglesia_San_Esteban.Benditera.JPG] [accessed 4 January 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of stoup in context

Scene Description: by the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 29 December 2014)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00113REN

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban

Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen

Church Location: Plaza Mayor, 34473 Renedo de Valdavia, Valladolid, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Palencia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the P-237, N of Arenillas de San Pelayo, about 30 km N of Carrion de los Condes, 50 km SW of Aguilar de Campoo, about 80 km NW of Palencia capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia

Historical Region: Comarca Vega-Valdavia

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N transept chapel

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Maestro de San Isidoro [Sancho Campo]

Cognate Fonts: The Valcobero font, now in the Museo Diocesano of Palencia; also related: the fonts at Albacastro, Colmenares de Ojeda, Calahorra de Boedo and Robladillo de Ucieza, Moarves de Ojeda, etc.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratefult to Mikel Unanue and Antonio Daban Royo for their additional photographs of this font

Church Notes: The font is located in a large transept chapel which allows for full viewing and easy access from all sides.

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in Sancho Campo (1971), who attributes to the 'maestro de San Isidoro' [NB: the illustration in v.I: pl. 47 is labelled "Renedo de la Vega", but it represents the font at Renedo de Valdavia]. In García Guinea (1990) and (1998), where it is dated -however reluctantly [="con grandes dudas"]- to the late 12th century; in Bilbao (1996). Romanesque baptismal font of the 12th century. Bilbao (ibid.) gives the fonts at Cillamayor and Valdeande, also in Burgos, as having the scene of the consecration of the font/waters [NB: for a superb Italian example cf. Index entry for Vicofertile]. On-site notes (1887, 1999): bucket-shaped font mounted on a square base, dated a/p the sources; the basin is ornamented at the upper rim with a band of beautiful encircled rosettes; the basin sides are ornamented with an arcade with foliage motifs in the spandrels; the round arches house a number of scenes and figures: a squence of arches portrays (L->R) the Adoration of the Magi, two mounted Magi, each in his own arch, then the third Magus dismounts on the next arch, while the next arch contains the Madonna and Child; the arch to the right of that, whose content also appears to form part of this scene, has a soldier (?) facing left, one hand on the column which separates the two arches while the other hand holds a weapon (?); the next two arches contain a man and a woman, each with hands together in prayer; the following arch holds Samson fighting the lion; the next shows a priest blessing (?) a baptismal font (or its water); the next has a warrior (St. George?) fighting a dragon; the basin rests on a large ring and a square lower base which has a claw motif at each angle; the Maltese cross appears on the shield, on the necklace of the Madonna, and several other places here. This font is reported to have been earlier at the Augustinian monastery of Arenillas de San Pelayo. Lid hinge staples are still evident in the upper rim . Noted and illustrated, with date in the late 12th century, in Martín Jiménez (2008).

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 4716829 369069

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 11.5-12.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 69-71 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 92-95 cm

Basin Depth: 37 cm

Height of Basin Side: 59 cm

Basin Total Height: 59 cm

Height of Base: 20 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 79 cm

Square Base Dimensions: 90 x 90 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La pila bautismal románica de San Pedro de Villanueva (Asturias)", t. XVI, 1-2, Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1998, pp. 161-166; r["References"]

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Palencia, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, 1990

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004

Martín González, J.J., Inventario Artístico de Palencia y su Provincia, Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1977-1980

Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008

Sancho Campo, Angel, "Arqueología de los siglos románicos en el ámbito de la actual provincia de Palencia", Palencia en los siglos del románico, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real - C.E.R., 2002

Sancho Campo, Angel, Arte sacro en Palencia, Palencia: Obispado de Palencia, Comisión Diocesana de Arte, 1971