Ardaiz / Ardaitz
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BF01: human figure - female - holding infant in arms (or giving birth?)
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Image Source: Digital photograph taken by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received from the author (e-mail 3/3/2003)
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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)
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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)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montserrat Estela, 2003
Image Source: Digital photograph taken by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]
Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received from the author (e-mail 3/3/2003)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 00483ARD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Pedro
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel, near the altar
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Peter
Church Address: c/. San Pedro, 8, 31697 Ardaiz, Navarra, Spain
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the NA-2330 [aka Carretera de Erro], in the municipality and 5 km S of Erro, about 30 km E of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Historical Region: Merindad de Sangüesa
Font Notes:
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Described in Uranga (1943: 163); described and illustrated in Uranga & Iñiguez (1973, vol. 5: 258 and pl. 365a); in Iraburu (1975: 86-87). Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (19890?- , vol. IV*: 300 and fig. 193) and in Domeño (1992: 82-84, 136 and figs. 110, 111) as a medieval baptismal font [Uranga & Iñiguez and the CMdeN give the 13th century] consisting of a hemispherical basin with a thick roll moulding on the lower end; the front of the basin is ornamented with a female body with the head of an infant held in her hands and lap, as her legs bend around the torus of the basin. Although this group has been usually described as Madonna and Child (e.g., in the CMdeN and in Uranga's article), Domeño favours Iraburu's (1975: 86-87) opinion that it is really the representation of a birth, a symbolic rendering of "uterus ecclesiae, fons baptismi". The group is certainly not a classical representation of the Madonna motif, and birth scenes are recorded in other churches of the area (e.g.: a well-known corbel at Artaiz). The stem of the base is a broad cylindrical pedestal, also ending in a thick roll moulding at the bottom where it meets the square lower base adorned with ball motif at the corners. The flat wooden lid is plain and modern. No entry found for Ardaiz in the Enciclopedia del romoanico.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión and Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for their images from Domeño's book; to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for her own digital images of the font
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 14, 82-84, 126, 136 and figs. 110, 111
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. IV*: 300 and fig. 193
- Iraburu Mathieu, José M., "La pila bautismal de Ardaiz", 1975, Cuadernos de Etnología y Etnografía Navarra, 1975, pp. 86-87; p. 86-87
- Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986, p. 153
- Uranga Galdiano, José Esteban, "La pila bautismal de Ardaiz", 1943, Príncipe de Viana, 1943, pp. 163-164; p. 163-164
- Uranga Galdiano, José Esteban, Arte medieval navarro, Pamplona: Editorial Aranzadi - Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1973, p. 258 and pl. 365a