Cologne No. 1 / Colonia Agrippina / Köln / Koln
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human figure - head
Scene Description: the all appear to be male
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design element - motifs - leaf
Scene Description: a large leaf beneath each of the four human heads on the basin sides
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human figure - head - male
Scene Description: thre of them visible here
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human figure - head - male
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - 2
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animal - mammal - lion - passant-gardant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - passant
Scene Description: passant to the left
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view of basin - interior
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: no drain; no lining -- notice the two metal staples at opposite ends in the upper rim
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Museum Schnütgen, 2020
Image Source: digital image [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Institution:Museum_Schnütgen] [accessed 17 February 2020]
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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "The church's original S door tympanum, verso, showing Roman spolia"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James Alexander Cameron, 2014
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]
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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James Alexander Cameron, 2014
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view of church exterior - portal - stylophore lion
Scene Description: the label questions the origin of the piece
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view of church exterior - portal - stylophore lion
Scene Description: the label questions the origin of the piece
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
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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]
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Scene Description: formerly a parish church, now a museum
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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]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: formerly a parish church, now a museum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Raimond Spekking, 2015
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 church interior
Scene Description: now a museum display area
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © James Alexander Cameron, 2014
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design element - patterns - linked circles
Scene Description: two bands of, all around the stem of the base
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Scene Description: museum label for the late-12thC portal tympanum now inside the museum display area
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view of church exterior - portal - tympanum
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Elcaballeroalvaro, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2015 by Elcaballoalvaro [www.flickr.com/photos/elcaballoalvaro/47996507903/] [accessed 17 February 2020]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00381COL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2020-02-13
Font Date: ca. 1200?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Mosan type
Cognate Fonts: Gladbach (Germ.), Limbourg (Belg.), etc.
Museum: Schnütgen Museum / Kunstgewebemuseum, K112
Church / Chapel Name: Cäcilienkirche [now Schnütgen Museum] [cf. museum information]
Font Location in Church: in a museum [itself a former church]
Church Patron Saint(s): [St. Cecilia]
Church Address: Cäcilienkloster, Köln-Altstadt-Süd, 50676 Cologne, Germany
Site Location: Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, Europe
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]
Additional Comments: disused font (the church is now a museum)
Font Notes:
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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]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the staff at the Schnütgen Museum for their permission to photograph this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32U 356058 5644563
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.934714, 6.951439
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 56′ 4.97″ N, 6° 57′ 5.18″ E
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 System: no drainage system
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