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Scene Description: Source caption: "Pila bautismal en la Iglesia de San Martín de Tours"
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New Testament - Virgin Mary - Madonna with Christ-child - Virgo lactans
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human figure - female - holding apple?
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cleric - with book
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human figure - male - with pouch or bag
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
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Scene Description: information plaque outside the church
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![Source caption: "Cripta de San Martín en Unx [...] San Martín de Tours es una iglesia en la localidad de San Martín de Unx, en Navarra. Construida en el siglo XII, tiene una cripta que ayuda a salvar el desnivel del terreno y a la que se accede por una escalera de caracol dentro del templo."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230305006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Cripta de San Martín en Unx [...] San Martín de Tours es una iglesia en la localidad de San Martín de Unx, en Navarra. Construida en el siglo XII, tiene una cripta que ayuda a salvar el desnivel del terreno y a la que se accede por una escalera de caracol dentro del templo."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ángel M. Felicísimo, 2018
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![Source caption: "Cripta de San Martín en Unx [...] San Martín de Tours es una iglesia en la localidad de San Martín de Unx, en Navarra. Construida en el siglo XII, tiene una cripta que ayuda a salvar el desnivel del terreno y a la que se accede por una escalera de caracol dentro del templo."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230305005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Cripta de San Martín en Unx [...] San Martín de Tours es una iglesia en la localidad de San Martín de Unx, en Navarra. Construida en el siglo XII, tiene una cripta que ayuda a salvar el desnivel del terreno y a la que se accede por una escalera de caracol dentro del templo."
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![Source caption: "Cripta de San Martín en Unx [...] San Martín de Tours es una iglesia en la localidad de San Martín de Unx, en Navarra. Construida en el siglo XII, tiene una cripta que ayuda a salvar el desnivel del terreno y a la que se accede por una escalera de caracol dentro del templo."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230305004_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Cripta de San Martín en Unx [...] San Martín de Tours es una iglesia en la localidad de San Martín de Unx, en Navarra. Construida en el siglo XII, tiene una cripta que ayuda a salvar el desnivel del terreno y a la que se accede por una escalera de caracol dentro del templo."
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![Source caption: "Cripta de San Martín en Unx [...] San Martín de Tours es una iglesia en la localidad de San Martín de Unx, en Navarra. Construida en el siglo XII, tiene una cripta que ayuda a salvar el desnivel del terreno y a la que se accede por una escalera de caracol dentro del templo."](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1230305003_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Cripta de San Martín en Unx [...] San Martín de Tours es una iglesia en la localidad de San Martín de Unx, en Navarra. Construida en el siglo XII, tiene una cripta que ayuda a salvar el desnivel del terreno y a la que se accede por una escalera de caracol dentro del templo."
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 00484UNX
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1996-08-06
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial [originalmente abacial?] de San Martín de Tours
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours [orig. St. Mary & St. Martin?]
Church Notes: church originally mid-12thC (consecration date 1156); was noted as 'abacial' before the 15thC
Church Address: Subida de la parroquia, s/n, 31495 San Martín de Unx, Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 628 07 82 87 / 669 41 22 03 / 628 07 82 87
Site Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the NA-132, 10 km E of Tafalla, 45 km of Pamplona
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Pamplona
Additional Comments: found buried font in 1977 excavations / abandoned font / re-instated font after 1977 -- disappeared font? (the one from the 12thC church here)
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-) as a Gothic baptismal font from the same date as some of the reliefs on the façade [i.e., 14th century]. Described and illustrated in Domeño (1992) and (1990): tub-shaped baptismal font of the 14th century; the basin is round and has an arcade of round arches all around; in the arches appear [L->R]: 1)male figure with instrument; 2)male figure with pouch in his hand; 3)tonsured cleric holding a book; 4)woman with bottle or apple (Eve?) (?); 5)Madonna and Child; 6)female figure with dish (Mary Magdalen?); some of the spandrels of the arcade are ornamented with palmettes and rosettes. The Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra (2008) declares it unique in Navarra for its iconographical programme and its design, and suggests a date in the 13th century for this font based on the vestments and on the similarities of the arcade with that in Santa María de Sangüesa. This same source notes that the side of the font that faces the corner is not decorated, and that the font was unearthed during excavations in 1977. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del romanico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/navarra_SAN_MART] [accessed 3 March 2023] notes: "magnífica pila bautismal, única en Navarra tanto por su iconografía como por su tipología. Hoy la podemos contemplar en el tramo más oriental de la nave norte. Se trata de una pila troncocónica invertida. Se labró para colocarla en un ángulo del edificio, por lo que sólo se decoraron con figuras las caras externas. Lleva seis personajes guarnecidos por una arquería de otros tantos arcos de medio punto sobre columnas. Domeño identificó los tres hombres de la izquierda como músico, noble y clérigo; y las tres mujeres de la derecha como Eva, una Virgen de la leche y María Magdalena. La vinculación de la Virgen amamantando al Niño (galactotrofusa) con el tema del bautismo es antigua. También lo es la asociación Eva-Ave, y el paralelismo entre el pecado original (Eva) y la salvación en el bautismo (Virgen con Niño). Ambas figuras se sitúan bajo los arcos más decorados. Domeño interpretó los tres personajes masculinos como representación de la sociedad estamental, y en consecuencia, como imagen de la veneración que el mundo cristiano dedicaba al bautismo. Tanto su originalidad iconográfica como su rareza tipológica hacen de la pila bautismal de San Martín una obra de compleja contextualización. Domeño la sitúa por su iconografía en pleno siglo XIV. Los atuendos son, no obstante, característicos de fechas más tempranas; así Aragonés, valorando las indumentarias, la arquería y las características estilísticas de las figuras la data en los primeros años del siglo XIII. Ciertamente, a pesar de la incipiente tendencia al naturalismo en las posiciones de los personajes, más penalizada por las limitaciones del cantero que por su excesiva antigüedad, la arquería de medios puntos, con columnas individualizadas, fustes decorados y capiteles avolutados nos remiten a un repertorio decorativo románico. Ya Domeño relacionó el enmarque del vaso con la arquería del apostolado de Santa María de Sangüesa. Estilema y enmarque parecen adaptarse más cómodamente a la hipótesis cronológica más antigua, y por tanto a los inicios del siglo XIII." [NB: one ought to keep in mind Francis Bond's rule about always dating an object to its latest cronological reference, not the earlier ones].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and to the photographers Larrión & Pimoulier for their images of the font; thanks also to Andrés A. Ortega, of Pamplona, Spain, for his image of this font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.5266630266, -1.5594991621
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42º 31' 35,98'' N, 1º 33' 34,19'' W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: tub-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Gran enciclopedia Navarra (11 vols.), Pamplona: Caja de Ahorros de Navarra, 1990, vol. 10: 144
- Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, "La pila bautismal de San Martín de Unx", 1991, t. 4, no. 7, Cuadernos de arte e iconografía, 1991, pp. 62-66; p. 62-66
- Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992, p. 14, 15, 35, 92-99, 110, 126, 176 and plates 124-126, 129-132
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Navarra, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008, vol. 3: 1248 and il. On p. 1249
- García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?], vol. III: 420-421 and pl. 576
- Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986, p. 356