Artariain No. 1 / Artanin / Artariáin / Artariayn / Artariein

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design element - motifs - rib - 4

Scene Description: ending at the bottom in a human head

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

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human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: one under each of the thick ribs

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

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

view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 6 July 2021 by Patxi Txokarro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artarain_21.jpg] [accessed 4 March 2023]

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Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

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

INFORMATION

FontID: 00477ART

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: c/ San Juan, 16, 31395 Artariáin, Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 659 18 63 63

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: Located E of the N-121 and AP-15, in the municipality of Leoz, about 25 km S of Pamplona

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona

Historical Region: Valdorba / Merindad de Olite

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery

Date: ca. 1200?

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

Cognate Fonts: Bilbao (1996) compares the head motifs in the fonts at Pariza (Burgos prov.) with those of the Navarrese fonts at Artariain, Orbaiceta and Zuazu

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for the image of this font

Church Notes: church ca. 1200; modified 16th, 17thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990-?, v. III: 142). Described in Domeño (1992: 138) as a hemispheric basin ornamented with four thick mouldings on which appear four heads; mounted on a cylindrical base. The motif of the head at the bottom of a cylindrical moulding or rib is most developed on the font at Elcano, also in Navarra [cf. Index entry]. No entry found for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico. [cf. Index entry for Artariáin No. 2 for an interesting holy-water stoup in this same church].

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 4719234 616770

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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

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?]