Torsby nr. Kungälv / Thorsby

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B01: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

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Image Source: photographed by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930709F1] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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B02: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve - Adam and Eve

Scene Description: or is God pulling the rib from Adams ribcage and creating Eve, who is conflated to the right, still in the same arch? -- the SHM's Mb photograoh is captiond: "Kristus i dödsriket (?)" -- could it be the Harrowing of Hell?

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Image Source: photographed by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930709F1] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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B03: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve?

Scene Description: in the right arch is a scene that appears to happen on a boat -- the SHM's Mb photographed is captioned: "gestalter kring en bädd" [figures on a bed]

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Image Source: photographed by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930709F1] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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B04: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve?

Scene Description: Adam about to consume the forbidden fruit?

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Image Source: photographed by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930709F1] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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B05: Old Testament - Genesis from the creation to the expulsion from paradise, and later years of Adam and Eve?

Scene Description: Cain murdering Abel? -- the SHM's Mb photograph is identified as the Baptism of Christ

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Image Source: photographed by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930709F1] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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B06: angel?

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Image Source: photographed by Lennart Karlsson, in Medeltidens bildvärld [http://medeltidbild.historiska.se/medeltidbild/visa/foremal.asp?objektid= 930709F1] [accessed 3 January 2015]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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Image Source: photograph taken by Tomas Brandt, Bohusläns museum [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443043] [accessed 19 June 2014]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: photograph taken by Tomas Brandt, Bohusläns museum [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443043] [accessed 19 June 2014]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: photograph taken by Tomas Brandt, Bohusläns museum [www.kringla.nu/kringla/objekt?referens=raa/bbr/21400000443043] [accessed 19 June 2014]

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view of basin

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Image Source: illustration in Montelius and Brusewitz (1878)

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view of font in context

Scene Description: NéA

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © CG Ryberg, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 June 2010 by CG Ryberg, in Kyrkokartan.se [www.kyrkokartan.se/056468/images/] [accessed 19 June 2014]

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view of iconographic program - detail

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Image Source: illustration in Montelius and Brusewitz (1878)

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view of iconographic program - detail

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Image Source: illustration in Montelius and Brusewitz (1878)

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00229TOR

Church/Chapel: Torsby Kyrka

Church Location: Torsby, 170 44273 Kärna, Bohuslän, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 (303) 206840

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Bohuslän, Västra Götalands län

Directions to Site: Located 10 km W of Kungälv, and in its municipality, in S Bohuslän

Ecclesiastic Region: Göteborgs stift

Historical Region: Inlands Södre härad

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, in the presbitery

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Torsbymästaren [Hallbäck]

Cognate Fonts: the font at Mo, also in Bohuslän [cf. FontNotes]

Church Notes: medieval church demolished in mid-19thC except for the tower; present 1851 church incorporates old tower; restored in 1949 [www.vastsverige.com/sv/sodrabohuslan/products/49513/Torsby-Kyrka/] [accessed 19 June 2014]

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Noted and illustrated in Montelius & Brusewitz (1878), where the font appears without a base [NB: M&B use 'Thorsby']. Noted and illustrated in Hallbäck (1961) as a baptismal font made of mica [= "glimmernejs"] in the first half of the 12th century by a "Torsbymästaren"; the author identifies 1)Christ surrounded by vines; 2)the Baptism of Christ; 3)the Harrowing of Hell; 4)possibly the Resurrection; 5)Adam and Eve; the author suggests that this font and the one at Mo, in the same county, are by the same hand. Nordström (1984) notes that there is a complete cycle of the story of Adam and Eve on this font. Noted and illustrated in the SHM database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930709F1] as a baptismal font made of gneiss in the second half of the 12th century; the SHM describes the decoration as including an arcade of six arches fith figure scenes, plus an additional Fall of Man scene that is not framed in the arcade; the SHM entry notes Hallbäck's attribution to a "Torsbymästaren" but it lsts it as "Upphovsman oidentifierad". The font is a round tapering tub decorated with a stark Crucifixion scene in one of the arches, followed by the Adam-and-Eve cycle noted in Nordström around the sides; the scene to the right of the Crucifixion is probably the creation of Adam (?), in which God holds a large cross; some of the scenes are hard to identify [e.g.: is one the Baptism of Christ?; another, the Harrowing of Hell?]; the scenes are displayed sandwiched between two rope mouldings; the individual scenes are framed in arches of loose form, both arch-heads and columns; the spandrels are decorated with varied motifs. The old basin is raised on a later wooden support. There is a baptismal dish in lieu of cover. The font is now located by the presbitery, to the south side of the altar.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.841336, 11.780342

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 50′ 28.81″ N, 11° 46′ 49.23″ E

UTM: 32V 665042 6414437

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, mica / gneiss [glimmernejs]

Number of Pieces: 1

Font Shape: gobblet-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 67 cm**

Basin Total Height: 52 cm* / 51 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Hallbäck (1961) / ** SHM database Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 930709F1]

REFERENCES

Hallbäck, Sven Axel, Medeltida dopfuntar i Bohuslän, 1961

Montelius, Oscar, Bohuslänska dopfuntar, Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1878

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