Pueyo / Puiu

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Results: 10 records

human figure - 3

Scene Description: one of three crudely rendered and much damaged figures on the pedestal stem of the base

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Image Source: digital image from a photograph by photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, Institución Príncipe de Viana

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human figure - seated

Scene Description: one of seven around the basin sides; holdings a second? a baby?

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human figure - seated

Scene Description: same as the one in B01

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

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human figure - seated

Scene Description: same as the one in B02

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Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

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human figure - seated - arms crossed

Scene Description: one of seven figures around the basin sides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003

Image Source: digital image from a photograph by photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, Institución Príncipe de Viana

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

human figure - seated - arms crossed

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003

Image Source: digital image from a photograph by photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, Institución Príncipe de Viana

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

view of church exterior in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Patxi Txokarro, 2020

Image Source: digital photograph 1 October 2020 by Patxi Txokarro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Puiu_21.jpg] [accessed 3 March 2023]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003

Image Source: digital image from a photograph by photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, Institución Príncipe de Viana

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

view of font and cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00465PUE
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora / Jasokundeko Andre Mariaren eliza
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: C/ la Iglesia 16, 31394 Pueyo, Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: 948 72 10 28 / 647 70 51 04
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the N-121 and AP-15, 5 km N of Tafalla, about 25 km S of Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Olite
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel on the S side
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for the images of this font
Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?- , vol. III: 410 and pl. 557) and in Domeño (1992: 79-80, 173 and pl. 103) as a medieval baptismal font; fourteen-sided polygonal basin of hemispherical overal shape ornamented alternatively with seven sitting figures and six ball motifs, which leaves one of the sides blank; the cylindrical pedestal of the base has three human figures now very deteriorated; the lower base is a plain hemispherical volume upturned. The font appears recently without a cover, but is shown in the ca. 1943 image from the Archivo Uranga with an old wooden cover. No entry found for Pueyo in the Enciclopedia del romanico.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.564885, -1.648981
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 33' 53.6" N, 1° 38' 56.3" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: polygonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

REFERENCES

Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992
García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]
Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986