Saint-Germain-en-Laye / St-Germain-en-Laye

Results: 9 records

animal - mammal - head

a bull or cow?
Scene Description: a bull or cow?

animal - mammal - lion - back to back - 2

It has no hind quarters and is joined at the back to another lion facing the opposite way.
Scene Description: It has no hind quarters and is joined at the back to another lion facing the opposite way.

animal - mammal - lion - back to back - 2

see previous image
Scene Description: see previous image

human figure

human figure

human figure - Negroid features

corner figure
Scene Description: corner figure

human figure - Negroid features

human figure - head - negroid features

human figure - head - negroid features

INFORMATION

FontID: 00319SAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Museum des Antiquités Nationales, St-Germain-en-Laye (Chateau) / Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Church/Chapel: [see museum information]
Church Location: Pl. Charles de Gaulle, 78100 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France -- Tel.: +33 1 39 10 13 00
Country Name: France
Location: Yvelines, Île-de-France
Directions to Site: St-Germain-en-Layeis located 19-20 km from Paris city centre -- it has express RER connection
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: The Musée des Antiquités Nationales is in the chateau itself. It opens Wed-Mon (tel. 34 51 53 65)
Font Notes:
Two images from the Index of Christian Art show two sides of a font shaped like a capital; at the top, a flat rim like an abacus; at the corners, human figures; the first side shows an animal head (bull or cow?) with a round human head to either side; the two human heads plus those of the two corner figures on this side have round eyes, protruding ears and kinky hair; the second side has also human figures at the corners, though the left one is broken off; two very Norman-looking half-lions united at their backs having no hind quarters, although they appear to have entangled tails (these lions are remarkably like those portrayed on some Gotland fonts) (description based on Gischia, 1939, fig. 90 and 90a)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.898056, 2.096389
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 53′ 53″ N, 2° 5′ 47″ E
UTM: 31U 433773 5416517

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: Trapezoidal
Basin Exterior Shape: trapezoidal

REFERENCES

Gischia, Arts primitifs français, Paris: Éditions arts et métiers graphiques, 1939
Index of Medieval Art, The Index of Medieval Art, Index of Christian Art, Princeton, [s.d.]. URL: https://theindex.princeton.edu/.