Briviesca No. 1 / Vervesca / Virivesca

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

Results: 34 records

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BU01: human figure

Scene Description: on the underbowl, corresponding to a figure on the upper part of the base

BU02: human figure

Scene Description: on the underbowl, corresponding to a figure on the upper part of the base

BU03: human figure

Scene Description: on the underbowl, corresponding to a figure on the upper part of the base

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

BU04: human figure

Scene Description: on the underbowl, corresponding to a figure on the upper part of the base

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

UB01: view of base - side 1

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

UBF01: human figure - female - exposed genitals

Scene Description: on the upper part of the base, corresponding to a human bust on the underbowl

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

UBF02: human figure - female - exposed genitals

Scene Description: on the upper part of the base, corresponding to a human bust on the underbowl

UBF03: human figure - female - exposed genitals

Scene Description: on the upper part of the base, corresponding to a human bust on the underbowl

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

UBF04: human figure - female - exposed genitals

Scene Description: on the upper part of the base, corresponding to a human bust on the underbowl

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

design element - motifs - moulding - patterned

the pattern on the moulding that decorates the rim is rather irregular: a roll moulding with patches of rope motif at irregular intervals

Scene Description: the pattern on the moulding that decorates the rim is rather irregular: a roll moulding with patches of rope motif at irregular intervals

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of base

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of base

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of base

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of base

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of base - side 2

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of base - side 3

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of base - side 4

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of basin

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of basin - interior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of basin - interior

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of church exterior - portal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of church exterior - southwest view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Martín, Briviesca, Burgos, España"

Image Source: digital photograph 18 May 2008 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Briviesca_-_Iglesia_de_San_Martin_26.JPG] [accessed 20 July 2021]

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view of church interior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Martín, Briviesca, Burgos, España"

Image Source: digital photograph 18 May 2008 by Zarateman [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Briviesca_-_Iglesia_de_San_Martin_18.JPG] [accessed 20 July 2021]

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view of church interior - pulpit

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of church interior - pulpit - detail - siren

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1, 2005

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

view of font in context

Scene Description: at the east end of the south aisle, obviously not its original location

Image Source: digital photograph ca. 2021 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 July 2021)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00522BRI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín Obispo

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Church Location: Plaza Mayor, 19, 09240 Briviesca, Burgos, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off local road CL-632, W of the N-1 / E-5 / E-80, 40 km NE of Burgos capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, E end of the S aisle

Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Gothic? / Late Gothic?

Church Notes: the originally late-Gothic church was modified in the 16th and 17thC

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in Bilbao (1996) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period [cf. infra] the basin of which is quite irregular, octagonal with a rope motif ornamentation at rim; the square base has two male figures carrying boys and two female figures carrying girls at corners. The entry for this church in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 20 July 2021] notes: "dedicada a San Martín, Obispo (el título de la parroquia de Briviesca es: Santa María la Mayor y su ayuda San Martín). Es renacentista [...] la pila es sencilla, sin adornos" [cf. infra]. On-site notes: the basin is roughly pyramidal, with eight sides [could be considered rectangular with chamfered angles] that are slightly curved; the base is also octagonal and very short, with four atlante-like figures at the upper end, where it joins the bottom of the basin; these four figures hold their legs up around their heads in a rather irreverent posture, so that it is the feet that "support" the basin; above each of these figures is a bust of another human figure, perhaps, as indicated in Bilbao [cf. supra], male and female; one appears to wear a crown, another a mitre [a bishop?], the other also wearing head-dress of some sort; there is damage at th upper rim at oposite ends, consistent with the forceful removal of the cover hardware, and two of the sides of the font have been repaired with modern mortar. Bilbao's dating of the font as Romanesque [cf. supra] is surely far fetched; the font is more likely late Gothic, like the church itself. [cf. Index entry for Briviesca No. 2 for another octagonal in the church of Santa María la Mayor in the same town]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.5508, -3.32389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 33′ 2.88″ N, 3° 19′ 26″ W

UTM: 30T 473409 4710985

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: octagonal (irregular) (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: octagonal (irregular)

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal (irregular)

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 8.5 - 9 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 74 x 71 cm*

Basin Depth: 36 - 38 cm*

Basin Total Height: 63 - 65 cm*

Height of Base: 24 - 26 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 89 cm*

Trapezoidal Basin: 92 x 88 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes for details of evidence of an earlier cover]

REFERENCES

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