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Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child?
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Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga
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Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child?
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Image Source: nstitución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]
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design element - architectural - arris
Scene Description: all around the basin sides
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design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: a row of, each in between the arrises around the basin sides
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design element - motifs - ball - 4
Scene Description: at 90-degree angles on the lower base
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human figure - male - Christ?
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Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]
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human figure - male - Holy Ghost?
Scene Description: at the back, against the wall
human figure - male - with book - God the Father?
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Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]
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: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Institución Príncipe de Viana, 2003
Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión and Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)
INFORMATION
FontID: 00479ZAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista [aka San Juan Evangelista]
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist [some sources claim dedication to the Evangelist instead]
Church Location: 31484 Zalba, Navarra, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-2330, in the municipality of Lizoáin, about 20 km E of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Cuenca de Lumbier-Aoiz / Merindad de Sangüesa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the W gallery
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at Zabalza de Urraul, in Navarra, is also decorated with ball motifs and crude figures. Another related font at Larrion, also in Navarra.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana, of Pamplona, Spain, and to the photographers Larrión and Pimoulier for the images of this font
Church Notes: medieval church modified 17th, 18thC -- Vegas' Diccionario... (1802), Ochoa's Diccionario... (1842) give advocation of this church as St John the Evangelist
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-, v. IV**: 86 and pl. 105) and in Domeño (1992: 77-78, 184 and figs. 97, 98): baptismal font of the Romanesque period consisting of a hemispherical basin mounted on a cylindrical pedestal and a round lower base ornamented with ball motifs at 90-degree angles. The whole is raised on a modern two-step plinth. The basin has a pattern of arrises with ball ornamentation near the upper rim; besides these, four human figures are located at 90-degree angles, at the same level as the ball motifs. Domeño (ibid., p. 77-78) identifies the figures as three males and one female and suggests that the first three are the Holy Trinity -one of them has bent knees on which a book may be seen- and the fourth figure, female and holding a baby in her lap, is identified as the Madonna and Child. The combination of ball motif and crudely rendered figures is non uncommon in fonts of this region [cf. Cognate fonts]. Noted in Plazaola Artola (2008?).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with arris points)
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
Plazaola Artola, Juan, "El arte gótico en Euskal Herria", hiru.com [Etengabeko Ikaskuntza], [2008?]