Linde No. 1 / Lindum

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B01: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - Mary to the right, Gabriel to the left

Scene Description: Two figures, to the right is the Virgin, in profile, head is haloed, with head covered, left hand raised toward the angel. Mary wears a mantle and long robes; her head is bent slightly forward. To the left is the angel, haloed, full front pose, head looks 2/3 towards Mary, both wings open and visible, the right hand points to Mary, the hand is worn or broken; the left hand of the angel shows out from under the mantle and holds it against the body. No stars, doves, etc.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - the three Wise Men are warned in a dream by an angel not to return to Herod

Scene Description: Under one arch, only the lower part of the scene remains. The scene contains a large bed, with rich coverings and an arched lower part - see Sighraf beds in Nativity - 6 arches, 7 columns, the headboard is to the right, and two heads are visible - the third has been destroyed, haloed heads. There appears to be an angel or clouds or wings on the left hand side.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - the three Wise Men are warned in a dream by an angel not to return to Herod - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - the three Wise Men are warned in a dream by an angel not to return to Herod - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings - detail

Scene Description: showing here two arches of the Adoration of the Kings: to the left are two of them; Madonna and Child to the right of the column

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings [part 1]

Scene Description: Spread over three arches: the arch farthest to the right contains the Madonna and Child, in a throne with high back and knobbed ends; full front pose, right hand raised and in blessing or humble gesture; Mary is haloed, the left hand holds the middle part of the child on her lap; she wears a long gown with long sleeves, no feet visible. The Child is in full frontal pose to waist, but lower part in profile, facing to the left, the direction of the Magi; haloed and facing viewer; his right hand with index finger point to approaching Magi. The middle arch contains two Magi In profile, crowned, hands raised to chest, carrying gifts over draped hands; they wear short skirts to below the knee, and the one to the left wears an elaborate sash. The arch farthest to the left of this scene contains the third Magus, passant towards the right, crowned, draped hands, with gift; behind him is an acanthus plant or tree with a richly appointed horse tied to it.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings [part 2]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings [part 3]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - detail

Scene Description: the cozy manger scene; a haloed Joseph holds his unidentified object

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity - detail

Scene Description: a very sophisticated manger shaped like a boat, raised on a deeply-carved arcade of five round arches with ball motif in the spandrels; the space below is incised with hatched lines [not an inscription]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity [Part 1]

Scene Description: This scene is carved in two arches, both now incomplete. The arch to the right contains, a bed, the headboard of which is a lion, facing the left; Mary lies in bed, covered head in profile, haloed; her right arm is visible over the covers, hand resting on her abdomen; she wears very wide sleeves. The bedcover is long and richly adorned. There is a row of hatched lines inscribed on the lower edge of the bed. The top right hand corner of the scene is missing, but a hand appears to be coming from it [NB: do other images by this artisan have a similar image?] In the second arch of this scene, there is a large boat-shaped raised on an arcaded bottom [cf. English Nativity scenes], six columns and five arches [cf. other example]. The child is swaddled, haloed head to the left, cross in haloe, and the head looks at the viewer; above are the two heads of ass, to the right, and the ox, to the lef). Further to the left sits Joseph on a rock or stool, his legs in profile covered with a long gown; his upper body is full frontal, haloed, long hair, both hands hold an object to the middle, round or oval shaped. The upper part of this scene is also missing.

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity [Part 2]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Scene Description: The visitation is partially visible. Lower remains of two figures, long robes, to the left a large acanthus plant. Only the lower 1/3 remains.

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

Scene Description: This is the only surviving arch of the original arcade on this font; the columns, the capitals, the bases and the spandrels vary greatly in shape and decoration; the one seen in this image is the plainest

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

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

Scene Description: one of the most complex columns of the arcade; a lion of monster head for capital and an acanthus plant in the scalloped base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

information

Scene Description: descriptive pages in Sveriges kyrkor

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 Augus0t 2012 by BSI [SK's Linde kyrka vol., p.76-77]

Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing

information

Scene Description: Visby Museum label

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 24 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field-notes taken 24 August 2012 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare hälft."

Image Source: digital image [508-78.TIF] of a 1925 B&W photograph by Gustaf Sjöberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023708.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare hälft."

Image Source: digital image [508-81.TIF] of an undated [between 1 January 1907 and 31 December 1912] B&W photograph by Carl R. af Ugglas, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023711.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare hälft."

Image Source: digital image [508-82.TIF] of a 1925 B&W photograph by Gustaf Sjöberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023719.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare hälft."

Image Source: digital image [508-84.TIF] of a 1925 B&W photograph by Gustaf Sjöberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023722.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare hälft."

Image Source: digital image [508-87.TIF] of a 1925 B&W photograph by Gustaf Sjöberg, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023727.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin

Scene Description: left arch: part of the Adoration of the Magi scene; right arch: part of the Nativity scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 August 2012 by BSI [with permission]

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Museum in May 2018

Image Source: digital image taken at the Visby Museum on 25 May 2018 (with permission)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F2] [accessed 22 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F2] [accessed 22 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F2] [accessed 22 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "heliga tre kungars tillbedjan"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F2] [accessed 22 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "heliga tre kungars tillbedjan, detalj"

Image Source: digital image of a photograph in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F2] [accessed 22 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-ND-4.0

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin - fragment

Scene Description: as displayed in the Visby Fornsal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 May 2023 by BSI

view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare del."

Image Source: digital image [508-92.TIF] of a 1937 B&W photograph by Per Olof Westlund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023752.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare del."

Image Source: digital image [508-93.TIF] of a 1937 B&W photograph by Per Olof Westlund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023753.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare del."

Image Source: digital image [508-94.TIF] of a 1937 B&W photograph by Per Olof Westlund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023758.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare del."

Image Source: digital image [508-95.TIF] of a 1937 B&W photograph by Per Olof Westlund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023760.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare del."

Image Source: digital image [508-96.TIF] of a 1937 B&W photograph by Per Olof Westlund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023763.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare del."

Image Source: digital image [508-97.TIF] of a 1937 B&W photograph by Per Olof Westlund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023765.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare del."

Image Source: digital image [508-98.TIF] of a 1937 B&W photograph by Per Olof Westlund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023767.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of basin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare del."

Image Source: digital image [508-99.TIF] of a 1937 B&W photograph by Per Olof Westlund, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023768.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Kyrkomiljö"

Image Source: digital image [dbg20085] of a 20 July 1996 photograph by Jan Norrman, in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_-_KMB_-_16000300024439.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.5

view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Linde kyrka [...] Dopfuntscuppa av sandsten, 1100-talets senare hälft."

Image Source: digital image [508-77.TIF] of an undated B&W photograph in the Kulturmiljöbild, Riksantikvarieämbetet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linde_kyrka_-_KMB_-_16000200023706.jpg] [accessed 22 April 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00316LIN

Museum and Inventory Number: Gotlands Museum [formerly Fornsalen Museum], Visby, Gotland

Church/Chapel: Linde kyrka [see museum information]

Church Location: Linde, 623 57 Hemse, Sweden -- Tel.: +46 498 48 00 66

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Gotland, Gotlands län

Directions to Site: Linde is located off (W) county road 142. about 35 km ESE of Visby. The Gotlands Museum is located at Strandgatan 14, 621 56 Visby, Sweden -- Telephone: 0498-29 27 00

Ecclesiastic Region: Visby stift -- Linde församling

Historical Region: Gotlands södra härad, Fardhems ting, Gotlands län

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Semi-Byzantios (Gotland)

Cognate Fonts: Alskog, Hamra, Jumkil, Tofta

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Torsten Svensson and to the Fornsalen Museum Visby, Gotland, for their help in documenting this font

Church Notes: church ca. 1200; modified since; 14thC tower chamber paintings; 15thC Passion master paintings;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Roosval (1918). Described and illustrated in Sveriges kyrkor: Gotland (Bd. VII, hft. 2: 71-75, 98) as the basin -unfortunately much damaged- of a sandstone baptismal font from the Semi-Byzantios workshop and dated to the second half of the 12th century; it is ornamented with an arcade of round arches resting sometimes on "normal" columns, sometimes on monster-head columns; scenes from the childhood of Christ (Annunciation, Visitation, Nativity, Adoration of the Magi, etc.) fill the arches. Noted in Stenström (1975) and in Svanberg (1995). Noted and illustrated in the SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F2] as a fragment of the basin of a baptismal font made of sandstone in the second half of the 12th century by Semi-Byzantios. There is a base in the parish church, now supporting a late basin [cf. Index entry for Linde No. 2] [cf. infra]. On-site notes: the basin, located now in the Fornsal Museum in Visby, has been severely damaged, with pieces missing from it; a central drain hole is evident. The base is still in the church at Linde, reused with a newer basin. The iconographic program, scenes from the Childhood of Christ, moves from the right to the left [cf. Images area]. There are eight arches in the arcade.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 57.279667, 18.379778

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 57° 16′ 46.8″ N, 18° 22′ 47.2″ E

UTM: 34V 342046 6351557

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 5-6 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 46-50 cm* [fragment]

Diameter (includes rim): 62-64 cm* / 64 cm** [fragment]

Basin Depth: 26-29 cm* [fragment]

Height of Basin Side: 26-27 cm* [fragment]

Basin Total Height: 37-38 cm* [fragment]

Font Height (less Plinth): 77 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site [three sets of measurements taken] / ** SHM Medeltidens bildvärld [ref.: 910502F2]

REFERENCES

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

Mackeprang, Mouritz, Danmarks middelalderlige døbefonte, 1941

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

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

Sigurjónsdóttir, Svava, "Semi-Bysantios dopfuntar: en tolkning grundad på ikonografisk och stilistik analys", Stockholm, 1990

Stenström, Tore, "Problem rörande Gotlands medeltida dopfuntar", Umeå, 1975

Svanberg, Jan, "Stenskulpturen", Den Romanska Konsten, Lund: Bokförlaget Signum, 1995

Tuulse, Armin, Romansk konst i Norden, Stockholm: Albert Bonniers Forlag, 1968