Calahorra de Boedo (Palencia)

Results: 24 records

B01: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - the holy women (the three Maries) on their way to or at the tomb, to anoint Christ's body - angel announces Christ's Resurrection - angel with censer - soldiers sleep - detail

Scene Description: one set of sleeping soldiers at Christ's tomb; this one appears to the left of the censering angel

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B01: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - the holy women (the three Maries) on their way to or at the tomb, to anoint Christ's body - angel announces Christ's Resurrection - angel with censer - soldiers sleep - detail

the whole scene cannot fit in a single frame; here is the central part of the scene: the Three Marys stand behind the tomb of Christ; the censing angel at the right informs them of the Resurrection; another censing angel is visible at the left; the two sets of sleeping soldiers are missing in this image, one set to each side.

Scene Description: the whole scene cannot fit in a single frame; here is the central part of the scene: the Three Marys stand behind the tomb of Christ; the censing angel at the right informs them of the Resurrection; another censing angel is visible at the left; the two sets of sleeping soldiers are missing in this image, one set to each side.

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B01: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - the holy women (the three Maries) on their way to or at the tomb, to anoint Christ's body - angel announces Christ's Resurrection - angel with censer - soldiers sleep - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B01: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - the holy women (the three Maries) on their way to or at the tomb, to anoint Christ's body - angel announces Christ's Resurrection - angel with censer - soldiers sleep - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B01: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - the holy women (the three Maries) on their way to or at the tomb, to anoint Christ's body - angel announces Christ's Resurrection - angel with censer - soldiers sleep - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B01: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - the holy women (the three Maries) on their way to or at the tomb, to anoint Christ's body - angel announces Christ's Resurrection - angel with censer - soldiers sleep - detail

the censing angel tells the Three Marys about the Resurrection; behind the angel, to the right, the second set of sleeping soldiers

Scene Description: the censing angel tells the Three Marys about the Resurrection; behind the angel, to the right, the second set of sleeping soldiers

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B01: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - the holy women (the three Maries) on their way to or at the tomb, to anoint Christ's body - angel announces Christ's Resurrection - angel with censer - soldiers sleep - detail

the second set of sleeping soldiers, part of the Three Marys at the tomb scene; these are located to the left of Christ and the rescued soul, the last two part of the Harrowing scene

Scene Description: the second set of sleeping soldiers, part of the Three Marys at the tomb scene; these are located to the left of Christ and the rescued soul, the last two part of the Harrowing scene

Image Source: photographed 12 August 1997 by BSI

B02: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

a very dynamic rendering of the Harrowing scene: Christ, a cruciferous halo on his head and a baculum in his right hand, bursts through the gate of Hell to rescue the souls; an already rescued soul stands in prayer to the left

Scene Description: a very dynamic rendering of the Harrowing scene: Christ, a cruciferous halo on his head and a baculum in his right hand, bursts through the gate of Hell to rescue the souls; an already rescued soul stands in prayer to the left

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B02: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Scene Description: Christ's Head

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B02: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

Scene Description: Christ's armed right arm; head of rescued soul

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B02: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

the vertical wall here separates the Devil and its evil souls, on the right, from the good soulson the left side, those who await Christ's rescue -- note also the crudely patched up damage to the upper rim area

Scene Description: the vertical wall here separates the Devil and its evil souls, on the right, from the good soulson the left side, those who await Christ's rescue -- note also the crudely patched up damage to the upper rim area

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B02: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

the opening between the two walls of Hell shows here the good souls awaing in prayer their rescue 'ab inferis'; Christ's figure is partially visible here to the left of the left wall

Scene Description: the opening between the two walls of Hell shows here the good souls awaing in prayer their rescue 'ab inferis'; Christ's figure is partially visible here to the left of the left wall

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

B02: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

the complete scene cannot be captured in a single image -- this side shows the part of the Harrowing where Christ erupts into the doors of Hell and rescues the good souls waiting there; one already rescued atnds behind Christ; to the left of this scene are one of the two sets of sleeping soldiers that frame the scene of the Three Maries at the tomb

Scene Description: the complete scene cannot be captured in a single image -- this side shows the part of the Harrowing where Christ erupts into the doors of Hell and rescues the good souls waiting there; one already rescued atnds behind Christ; to the left of this scene are one of the two sets of sleeping soldiers that frame the scene of the Three Maries at the tomb

Image Source: photographed 12 August 1997 by BSI

B03: New Testament - events from Resurrection to Pentecost - Harrowing of Hell - detail

to the left are one of the two sets of sleeping soldiers that belong to the Three Marys at the tomb scene; on the right are the rescued soul and Christ in the Harrowing scene

Scene Description: to the left are one of the two sets of sleeping soldiers that belong to the Three Marys at the tomb scene; on the right are the rescued soul and Christ in the Harrowing scene

Image Source: photographed 12 August 1997 by BSI

design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: a band all around the middle of the lower base section, with petals or beads in the spandrels of the circles

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

design element - motifs - moulding

between crenellated and zig-zag, depending on the side of the basin -- showing here both the original work (left) and the restoration (centre and right)

Scene Description: between crenellated and zig-zag, depending on the side of the basin -- showing here both the original work (left) and the restoration (centre and right)

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Scene Description: a thick one, serving as platform for the scenes on the sides

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

design element - motifs - roll moulding - patterned

Scene Description: showing here both the original work (left) and the restoration (centre and right)

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: all around the upper rim of the lower base section

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: a row of, all around the lower rim of the lower base section

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

view of font

showing parts of the two scenes that decorate the font: from the centre to the right are the six sleeping soldiers that belong to the Three Marys at the tomb scene; the left side is occupied by two full-figure monstruous beings. one clearly a horned devil, the other, slender and to its right, a large standing snake with a coiled tail; farther to the left, three ugly heads of Hell residents; a wall appears to separate the evil souls on this side from the good souls being rescued by Christ; unlike the ugly faces of the evil souls on the right side of the wall, the heads of the good souls that appear to the left of the wall are regular-featured and look towards the rescuing Christ

Scene Description: showing parts of the two scenes that decorate the font: from the centre to the right are the six sleeping soldiers that belong to the Three Marys at the tomb scene; the left side is occupied by two full-figure monstruous beings. one clearly a horned devil, the other, slender and to its right, a large standing snake with a coiled tail; farther to the left, three ugly heads of Hell residents; a wall appears to separate the evil souls on this side from the good souls being rescued by Christ; unlike the ugly faces of the evil souls on the right side of the wall, the heads of the good souls that appear to the left of the wall are regular-featured and look towards the rescuing Christ

Image Source: photographed 12 August 1997 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 July 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via (e-mail of 28 December 2014)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00191CAL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Candelas

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: c/ Oran, 11, 34407 Calahorra de Boedo, Palencia, Spain -- Tel.: +34 979 140 095

Country Name: Spain

Location: Palencia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located at the junction P231-P232

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia

Historical Region: Comarca de Boedo-Ojeda

Font Location in Church: In the baptistry, with its own entrance from the street.

Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master of the capitals at Santa Maria de Aguilar de Campoo? and the master of the capitals at Santiago en Carrion? / by maestro de Perazancas?

Cognate Fonts: similar, though not identical, to those at Robladillo de Ucieza and Colmenares de Ojeda, in the same region

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Mikel Unanue and Antonio Daban Royo, both Amigos del Románico, for their photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Sancho Campo (1971), who dates to the 12th century and attributes it to the 'maestro de Perazancas'. Described in Martín González (1977); in Guerra (1986 c1978); in García Guinea (1990) and (1998), where it is dated to the late 12th century; in Bilbao (1996). In Kroesen & Steensma (2004) with date to the late 12th century. The Harrowing of Hell scene is identified and illustrated in Rodríguez Montañés (2006). Noted and illustrated in Martín Jiménez (2008). On-site notes: large bucket-shaped baptismal font ornamented with two major scenes: the Harrowing of Hell has itself three sequences: the first, at the extreme right, reproduces the inner chamber of Hell occupied by a large serpent, a pot-bellied demon with horns, claws and a hairy body, and threedeformed heads representing the condemned souls; a narrow passage-way and an arch open the second sequence, visible beyond a partially fallen wall, in which the elected souls wait orderly in Limbo for the arrival of Christ through a set of doors which are right there being broken open by Him; the third sequence shows a forceful Christ in profile carrying a staff in his right hand while he pulls one of the souls by the arm; this is a powerful dynamic Christ, with long braided hair and beard, his mighty hand about to strike with his staff; there is naked figure behind Christ with his hands to the chest, one soul already rescued from Hell. The next scene shows the Three Marys at the Sepulchre which is flanked by two angels holding censers, the one on the right with his hand on the tomb slab while he tells the three women about the Resurrected Christ; the scene is completed at both ends with groups of soldiers armed with shield and spear and covered in coat-of-mail; they complete the Three Marys scene. The lower base has quatrefoil and diamond ornament. Alvarez Martínez (2007) remarks on the connection between themes of the Passion and Resurrection with the regenerative waters of baptism.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.566667, -4.383056

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 34′ 0″ N, 4° 22′ 59″ W

UTM: 30T 4713623 386480

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 17 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 95 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 128 cm *[129 cm]

Height of Basin Side: 64 cm

Basin Total Height: 64 cm

Height of Base: 16 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 80 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI *[Bilbao (1996: 302) and García Guinea (1998: 389)]

REFERENCES

Historia del arte de Castilla y León, [León?]: Ambito; Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 1994-1998

Alvarez Martínez, María Soledad, "La topografía simbólica de los repertorios figurativos", 2007, pp. 9-44; p. 35

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

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

Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978

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

Rodríguez Montañés, José Manuel, "Las visiones celestiales en la iconografía románica", 2006

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