Guardo / Boardo / Buardo

Results: 26 records

B01: human figure - 2 - embracing - wrestlers?

Could this be a sodomy scene instead? -- this scene is framed in a curious manner: the arch-head appears to be formed by thwo angels (?), the supporting columns have torsade decoration, while most of the other supports are plain or non existant, and one of the 'capitals', the one on the left, appears to be a human face

Scene Description: Could this be a sodomy scene instead? -- this scene is framed in a curious manner: the arch-head appears to be formed by thwo angels (?), the supporting columns have torsade decoration, while most of the other supports are plain or non existant, and one of the 'capitals', the one on the left, appears to be a human face

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

B02: cleric - priest - kneeling [confession?]

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

B03: angel - holding sword - cross - 2

Scene Description: seen here in the right arch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - symbol

the animal in the upper left arch is definitely a winged lion [Mark's symbol], and the one in the upper right arch could, at a stretch, a winged bovine (Luke's symbol, bu what, then. are the two animals in the lower register? the one in the lower left appears to be a winged quadruped, whereas the one in the lower right is a lion but not wingerd, and has human behind it, to the right [only the face is discernible in this image]

Scene Description: the animal in the upper left arch is definitely a winged lion [Mark's symbol], and the one in the upper right arch could, at a stretch, a winged bovine (Luke's symbol, bu what, then. are the two animals in the lower register? the one in the lower left appears to be a winged quadruped, whereas the one in the lower right is a lion but not wingerd, and has human behind it, to the right [only the face is discernible in this image]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

B05: human figure - standing - holding sword in his right hand

the upper part of this area has been damaged and repaired with a new carving of the arch-head and the Grecian fret at the upper rim, but there is hint of a hood on the head of the figure, which is an a passant to the right stance; the hood might suggest a cleric but the rest of the clothing and the sword do not; it is possible a half of a scene depicting a fight between this figure and the centaur in the next arch to the right, of which the front half is visible here pointing a tiny bow and arrow to the defaced figure -- partially visible in the previous arch, bottom left, is a human figure standing behing the rump of a lion

Scene Description: the upper part of this area has been damaged and repaired with a new carving of the arch-head and the Grecian fret at the upper rim, but there is hint of a hood on the head of the figure, which is an a passant to the right stance; the hood might suggest a cleric but the rest of the clothing and the sword do not; it is possible a half of a scene depicting a fight between this figure and the centaur in the next arch to the right, of which the front half is visible here pointing a tiny bow and arrow to the defaced figure -- partially visible in the previous arch, bottom left, is a human figure standing behing the rump of a lion

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

B06: animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with bow and arrow - human figure - fighting

Centaur in the right arch points his arrow at an armed warrior in the previous arch; there is a small quadruped on the standing on the rump of the centaur; in the lower half of the frame are two winged quadrupeds facing each other in a fight, by all appearances; the centaur occupies two arches and the support between tham has been left out, as often happens in these occasions

Scene Description: Centaur in the right arch points his arrow at an armed warrior in the previous arch; there is a small quadruped on the standing on the rump of the centaur; in the lower half of the frame are two winged quadrupeds facing each other in a fight, by all appearances; the centaur occupies two arches and the support between tham has been left out, as often happens in these occasions

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

B07: human figure - male and female - fornicating - nude [resurrection scene?]

a naked woman lies on the ground, her legs wide open and her arms towards her mate above; the man, also naked, stands abover her, his legs open and slightly flexed and his hands on his genitals. [could this scene represent a resurrection? Harrowing of Hell? -- see also López' interpretation]

Scene Description: a naked woman lies on the ground, her legs wide open and her arms towards her mate above; the man, also naked, stands abover her, his legs open and slightly flexed and his hands on his genitals. [could this scene represent a resurrection? Harrowing of Hell? -- see also López' interpretation]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

B08: human figure - male and female? - one is nude

they stand facing each other; the figure on the left is taller and is fully dressed in long garments; the figure on the right is smaller and appears to be nude

Scene Description: they stand facing each other; the figure on the left is taller and is fully dressed in long garments; the figure on the right is smaller and appears to be nude

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

animal - bird - cockerel?

a plump cockerel in the lower register, right beneath the scene with the two facing figures to the right of the copulating (?) scene

Scene Description: a plump cockerel in the lower register, right beneath the scene with the two facing figures to the right of the copulating (?) scene

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged quadruped - 2 - fighting

Scene Description: these are the two facing winged quadrupeds beneath the centaur scene

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade

The arcade is totally heterogenous in its design; some of the arches are round and almost flat; some are supported on plain columns, others on torsade columns, and others have no support at all; in the arch that houses the two wrestlers (?) the arche-head is formed by a pair of angels (?).

Scene Description: The arcade is totally heterogenous in its design; some of the arches are round and almost flat; some are supported on plain columns, others on torsade columns, and others have no support at all; in the arch that houses the two wrestlers (?) the arche-head is formed by a pair of angels (?).

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

design element - patterns - fretwork - Grecian / Greek

Scene Description: some of it has been repaired [see the image with the defaced human figure carrying a sword a nd facing the centaur]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

liturgical furnishing - sarcophagus [Resurrection of the Souls? / Harrowing of Hell?]

In the lower register, a depiction of a total of three sepulchres and six naked figures which rise from them; this scene stretches from the extreme left, where a figure rises from an open sepulchre [beneath the wrestlers' scene], across to the right beneath the confession (?) scene, to the extreme right [beneath the Evangelists' symbols, where a winged beast stands on the lid of a sepulchre [scene covered in image filenames GUA9901004+GUA9901006+GUA9901013]

Scene Description: In the lower register, a depiction of a total of three sepulchres and six naked figures which rise from them; this scene stretches from the extreme left, where a figure rises from an open sepulchre [beneath the wrestlers' scene], across to the right beneath the confession (?) scene, to the extreme right [beneath the Evangelists' symbols, where a winged beast stands on the lid of a sepulchre [scene covered in image filenames GUA9901004+GUA9901006+GUA9901013]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 21 April 2011 by Miguel Ángel García [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_San_Juan_Bautista,_Guardo.jpg] [accessed 5 November 2016]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: the font, though not visible in this image, is located at the east end of the north aisle, where the red and white drapings are

Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2011 by Miguel Ángel García [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pila_Bautismal_Prerrománica.Guardo.Palencia._(5678953117).jpg] [accessed 5 November 2016]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Kike Lombardero

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 2 June 1999 by BSI

view of font in context

at the east end of the north aisle -- Source caption: "De origen románico, es el único resto arqueológico, y se encuentra ubicado en la Iglesia de San Juan Bautista. No se sabe su procedencia, aunque algunos autores aseguran que fue traída del Monasterio de San Román de Entrepeñas (hoy en ruinas) en el término de Santibáñez de la Peña. Es una hermosa pieza, robusta, de tipo cónico truncado, sin curvatura en su superficie y sin peana y soporte propio. A toda vuelta lleva una greca clásica. Posiblemente tallada por un artista local, supo darle a la pieza una gran expresividad y dramatismo. En ella se representan escenas sobre la vida y la muerte. En su talla podemos distinguir dos bandas diferenciadas. En la parte superior sus figuras están más trabajadas y de mayor volumen, destacando sus arcos rudimentarios con arcaduras en ángulo de caída a dos aguas, una figura de un centauro sagitario, un cuadrúpedo de mayor tamaño y una figura enigmática de hombre con las piernas abiertas y las manos apoyadas en el pubis. En la banda inferior se observan figuras dentro de las fosas, destacando entre ellas un personaje femenino, tumbado pero viva y en movimiento. Todos sus personajes giran en torno de la vida (banda superior) y de la muerte (banda inferior), de difícil interpretación y difícil simbolismo."

Scene Description: at the east end of the north aisle -- Source caption: "De origen románico, es el único resto arqueológico, y se encuentra ubicado en la Iglesia de San Juan Bautista. No se sabe su procedencia, aunque algunos autores aseguran que fue traída del Monasterio de San Román de Entrepeñas (hoy en ruinas) en el término de Santibáñez de la Peña. Es una hermosa pieza, robusta, de tipo cónico truncado, sin curvatura en su superficie y sin peana y soporte propio. A toda vuelta lleva una greca clásica. Posiblemente tallada por un artista local, supo darle a la pieza una gran expresividad y dramatismo. En ella se representan escenas sobre la vida y la muerte. En su talla podemos distinguir dos bandas diferenciadas. En la parte superior sus figuras están más trabajadas y de mayor volumen, destacando sus arcos rudimentarios con arcaduras en ángulo de caída a dos aguas, una figura de un centauro sagitario, un cuadrúpedo de mayor tamaño y una figura enigmática de hombre con las piernas abiertas y las manos apoyadas en el pubis. En la banda inferior se observan figuras dentro de las fosas, destacando entre ellas un personaje femenino, tumbado pero viva y en movimiento. Todos sus personajes giran en torno de la vida (banda superior) y de la muerte (banda inferior), de difícil interpretación y difícil simbolismo."

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00420GUA

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: Av. Castilla y León, 14, 34880 Guardo, Palencia, Spain -- Tel.: +34 979 85 04 34

Country Name: Spain

Location: Palencia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located on the banks of the Carrión River, 94 km from Palencia capital, towards the border with León

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia

Historical Region: Alto Carrión / La Montaña

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end of the N aisle

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

Church Notes: present church is 16th-18thC

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Quirino Fernández (1768?) as a baptismal font "crudely carved by a local artisan, and richly decorated with a whole world of liturgical as well as profane motifs, the 'ghost' of the old Romanesque style; its relieves, organised on two registers, transcribe nothing less than the difficult theme of life and death" [our translation -- original text appears reproduced in: www.mundofree.com/guardo/]. Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996). An interesting interpretation is offered by López ([s.d.]) in www.alpoma.net/guardoweb/pila.html. The basin has a busy decoration with two main registers, upper and lower, and many elements framed by the irregular arches: a cockerel, a centaur, winged beasts, a scene of the Resurrection of the Souls, another of the Last Judgement?, an armed warrior, quadrupeds, a fornication/sodomy (?) scene, etc. Noted and illustrated in García Guinea (1998), who describes its dating as uncertain, with a certain Gothic air ["cronología bastante incierta, aunque tiene cierto aire de goticismo"]. In the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-), where it is described as an enigmatic piece ["no es una pieza novedosa [...] aunque sí resulta enigmática"] and dated to the late 12th or early 13th century. Noted in Martín Jiménez (2008).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.789054, -4.841773

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 47′ 20.59″ N, 4° 50′ 30.38″ W

UTM: 30T 349366 4739035

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (fine-grained)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 16 cm* / 17 cm***

Diameter (inside rim): 69-70 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 101* cm / 105 cm**

Basin Depth: 40 cm*

Height of Basin Side: 62 cm*

Basin Total Height: 62 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm*

Font Height (with Plinth): 86 cm* (octagonal plinth)

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996: 303) / *** García Guinea (1998: 365)

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, El Románico en Palencia, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, 1990

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998

Lojendio, L. M., Castilla/2, 1985

López, Miguel, "Simbolismo prerrománico: estudio sobre la pila bautismal de Guardo", [s.d.; 2005?], pp. 1-17; [www.alpoma.net/guardoweb/pila.htm]

Martín González, J.J., Inventario Artístico de Palencia y su Provincia, Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1977-1980

Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008

Sancho Campo, Angel, "Arqueología de los siglos románicos en el ámbito de la actual provincia de Palencia", Palencia en los siglos del románico, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real - C.E.R., 2002

Sancho Campo, Angel, Arte sacro en Palencia, Palencia: Obispado de Palencia, Comisión Diocesana de Arte, 1971