Cologne No. 1 / Colonia Agrippina / Köln / Koln

Results: 33 records

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant

Scene Description: passant to the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant

Scene Description: passant to the left

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: a large leaf beneath each of the four human heads on the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

design element - patterns - linked circles

Scene Description: two bands of, all around the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

human figure - head

Scene Description: the all appear to be male

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human figure - head - male

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

human figure - head - male

Scene Description: thre of them visible here

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

information

Scene Description: museum label for the late-12thC portal tympanum now inside the museum display area

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

information

Scene Description: museum label

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

information

Image Source: digital image of field notes taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: no drain; no lining -- notice the two metal staples at opposite ends in the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of church exterior - northeast view

Image Source: digital image [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institution:Museum_Schnütgen] [accessed 17 February 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of church exterior - portal - stylophore lion

Scene Description: the label questions the origin of the piece

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - stylophore lion

Scene Description: the label questions the origin of the piece

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of church exterior - portal - tympanum

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 June 2014 by James Alexander Cameron [www.flickr.com/photos/jcameronuk/14631881703/in/photostream/] [accessed 17 February 2020]

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

view of church exterior - portal - tympanum

Source caption: "The tympanum on the north portal is one of the jewels of the Schnütgen Museum, located in the church of St. Cecilia in Cologne (Köln) Germany, built in Romanesque style in the twelfth century. It represents the patroness saint Santa Cecilia when she suffers her martyrdom, while an angel crowns her, and an inscription in the form of an arch reminds us of the example of kindness to follow in order to win heaven. / El tímpano de la portada norte es una de las joyas del Museo Schnütgen, situado en la iglesia de Santa Cecilia en Colonia (Köln) Alemania, construida en estilo románico en el siglo XII.
Representa a la patrona Santa Cecilia cuando sufre su martirio, mientras un ángel la corona, y una inscripción en forma de arco, nos recuerda el ejemplo de bondad a seguir para ganar el cielo."

Scene Description: Source caption: "The tympanum on the north portal is one of the jewels of the Schnütgen Museum, located in the church of St. Cecilia in Cologne (Köln) Germany, built in Romanesque style in the twelfth century. It represents the patroness saint Santa Cecilia when she suffers her martyrdom, while an angel crowns her, and an inscription in the form of an arch reminds us of the example of kindness to follow in order to win heaven. / El tímpano de la portada norte es una de las joyas del Museo Schnütgen, situado en la iglesia de Santa Cecilia en Colonia (Köln) Alemania, construida en estilo románico en el siglo XII. Representa a la patrona Santa Cecilia cuando sufre su martirio, mientras un ángel la corona, y una inscripción en forma de arco, nos recuerda el ejemplo de bondad a seguir para ganar el cielo."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2015 by Elcaballoalvaro [www.flickr.com/photos/elcaballoalvaro/47996507903/] [accessed 17 February 2020]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - portal - tympanum - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "The church's original S door tympanum, verso, showing Roman spolia"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 June 2014 by James Alexander Cameron [www.flickr.com/photos/jcameronuk/14631881993/in/photostream/] [accessed 17 February 2020]

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

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Image Source: digital image of a ca. 1673 oil on panel paintig by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerrit_Berckheyde_-_Church_of_Saint_Cecilia,_Cologne.jpg] [accessed 17 February 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-100-expired / PD-Art (PD-old-100-expired)

view of church interior

Scene Description: now a museum display area

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 25 June 2014 by James Alexander Cameron [www.flickr.com/photos/jcameronuk/14631880813/in/photostream/] [accessed 17 February 2020]

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

view of church interior - chancel and east end

Scene Description: formerly a parish church, now a museum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 November 2015 by Daderot [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._Cäcilien_-_Museum_Schnütgen_-_Cologne,_Germany_-_DSC00229.jpg] [accessed 17 February 2020]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: formerly a parish church, now a museum

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 December 2015 by Raimond Spekking [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Museum_Schnütgen_-_St._Cäcilien_-_innenaufnahme-4459.jpg] [accessed 17 February 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of font

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 February 2020 by BSI

view of font

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view of font

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00381COL

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Museum and Inventory Number: Schnütgen Museum / Kunstgewebemuseum

Church/Chapel: Cäcilienkirche [now Schnütgen Museum] [cf. museum information]

Church Patron Saints: [St. Cecilia]

Church Location: Cäcilienkloster, Köln-Altstadt-Süd, 50676 Cologne, Germany

Country Name: Germany

Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen

Directions to Site: Located in the Innenstadt OF cOLOGNE, just SW of the Cäcilienstrasse-Neuköllnerstrasse crossroads, on the W bank of the Rhein river

Ecclesiastic Region: [Erzbistum Köln]

Font Location in Church: in a museum [itself a former church]

Date: ca. 1200?

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

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type

Cognate Fonts: Gladbach (Germ.), Limbourg (Belg.), etc.

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the staff at the Schnütgen Museum for their permission to photograph this font

Font Notes: Click to view

Included by Cloquet (1895) among the round fonts of the Mosan type with four human heads, at 90-degree angles, on the basin sides. [NB: similar to the font in Antoninekirche [cf. Index entry for Gologne No.12]]. The basin is the usual round with four protruding human heads [all male?] at 90-degree angles of the upper rim; the sides between have a passant-gardant lion, a passant dragon, a double-headed(?) unidentified fabulous monster, and large leaves beneath the heads; the base is a short cylindrical pedestal decorated with two rows of linked circles. There is no cover present but two metal staples from an old cover anchoring remain at opposite ends in the upper rim. [NB: Bond (1908) mentions a cauldron-shaped metal font in Cologne; it is not clear yet to which church he refers to -- to be resolved]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.934714, 6.951439

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 56′ 4.97″ N, 6° 57′ 5.18″ E

UTM: 32U 356058 5644563

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (pierre mosan / black and blue limestone)

Font Shape: round (mounted) [with heads]

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round [with heads]

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 19 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 67 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 87 cm*

Basin Depth: 33 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

REFERENCES

Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 318