Bremen No. 1

Results: 17 records

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B1R01: Christ - Christ in Majesty - Apostles - 12

Scene Description: Each in one of the arches of the upper arcade

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

B2R01: Old Testament - prophets - busts of prophets - holding scrolls

Scene Description: Each in one of the arches of the lower arcade

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

LBSF01: human figure - male - riding lion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

LBSF01: human figure - male - riding lion - detail

LBSF02: human figure - male - riding lion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

LBSF03: human figure - male - riding lion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

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

the arches are of different widths, depending on the figure inside them; most have a pinnacle in the spandrel; the upper arcade has 26 arches; the lower arcade has 20 arches

Scene Description: the arches are of different widths, depending on the figure inside them; most have a pinnacle in the spandrel; the upper arcade has 26 arches; the lower arcade has 20 arches

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - 3

Scene Description: the top and the bottom ones have palmettes in them

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

human figure - head - 2

one of them seen here in the upper left corner of the image; as often happens in these metal fonts the head is used as an anchoring point for the cover lock mechanism

Scene Description: one of them seen here in the upper left corner of the image; as often happens in these metal fonts the head is used as an anchoring point for the cover lock mechanism

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

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view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2015 by Ulamm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bremen_Domshof_Dom20h50.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2018]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2013 by Andreas Dantz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Der_Dom_(8587633208).jpg] [accessed 3 March 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0

view of church interior - chancel

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2006 by Jürgen Howaldt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BremerDom-2.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2018]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0-DE

view of church interior - nave - looking northwest

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2006 by Jürgen Howaldt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BremerDom-1.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2018]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 29 June 1997 by BSI

view of font in context

the font in the crypt of the cathedral -- Source caption: "Westkrypta des Bremer Doma mit dem romanischen Taufbecken und dem Relief von Jesus Christus als Pantokrator (Herrscher) aus der Mitte des 11. Jahrhunderts".

Scene Description: the font in the crypt of the cathedral -- Source caption: "Westkrypta des Bremer Doma mit dem romanischen Taufbecken und dem Relief von Jesus Christus als Pantokrator (Herrscher) aus der Mitte des 11. Jahrhunderts".

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 July 2015 by Ulamm [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bremen_Dom_Westkrypta_Taufb_Christusrex.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2018]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0

INFORMATION

FontID: 00168BRE

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Bremen Dom / St. Petri Dom zu Bremen

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Sandstraße 10-12, 28195 Bremen, Germany -- Tel.: +49 421 365040

Country Name: Germany

Location: Bremen, Bremen

Directions to Site: Located off highway 281; the cathedral is in the Altstadt, near Die Glocke, the concert hall

Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Bremen

Font Location in Church: In the crypt of the Dom

Date: ca. 1230?

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Löwenreiter-Typus

Cognate Fonts: Salzburg cathedral font (Drake (2002); Münden, Debstedt

Church Notes: first known building was timber church ca. 789; re-built and destroyed several times; oldest part of present building is the 11thC crypt;

Font Notes: Click to view

Lübke (1870) notes a metal font "resting on four men borne by lions" and belonging to the late Romanesque period. Pudelko (1932) gives the date of this font as "Anf. 13. Jahrh." Carlsson (1976) describes the base: "four men, dressed in knee-long coats, who stand dominatingly over lions [...]. One of the men underlines his dominating position by taking hold of the ears of the lion thus bridling it." Described in Drake (2002), who compares it to the one at Salzburg cathedral [NB: a later article by the same author, Drake (2003), mentions the Bremen font as leaden, but this must be an oversight, especially in the light of the fact that his main work has it as made of bronze]. On-site notes: the font appears made of bronze; it has a tub-shaped basin supported by four lions with a man not sitting but standing astride each animal; two arcades encircle the bowl: in the upper arcade figures stand holding scrolls - one is the figure of Christ, the others appear to be the Apostles; in the lower arcade, each holding a scroll, busts of the Prophets. There is no apparent drainage system in the basin. The font is in excellent shape all around.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 53.075278, 8.808889

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 53° 4′ 31″ N, 8° 48′ 32″ E

UTM: 32U 487197 5880662

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: tub-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 3.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 92 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 99-100 cm

Height of Basin Side: 42-43 cm

Basin Total Height: 42-43 cm

Height of Base: 50-51 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 93 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 112 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976

Drake, Colin Stuart, "Romanesque Fonts in Kent: the French Connections", CXXIII, 2003, Archaeologia Cantiana, 2003, pp. 333-352; p. 344

Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870

Muir, Thomas S., Ecclesiological Notes on Some of the Islands of Scotland, Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1885

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