Gallega / La Gallega (Burgos)
Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 March 2021]
Results: 27 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - beaded-tape motif - columns with capitals
BBU01: design element - motifs - vine - acanthus?
BBU02: animal - mammal - quadruped - 2 - zoomachia?
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
BS01: design element - motifs - varied
R01: design element - motifs - roll moulding
animal - mammal - feline - deer - fighting
![a scene in which two quadrupeds are engaged -- Valle Barreda [cf. FontNotes] suggests a feline attacking a deer](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210325026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a scene in which two quadrupeds are engaged -- Valle Barreda [cf. FontNotes] suggests a feline attacking a deer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
animal - mammal - feline - deer - fighting - detail
![a scene in which two quadrupeds are engaged -- Valle Barreda [cf. FontNotes] suggests a feline attacking a deer](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210325025_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a scene in which two quadrupeds are engaged -- Valle Barreda [cf. FontNotes] suggests a feline attacking a deer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
animal - mammal - feline - deer - fighting - detail
![a scene in which two quadrupeds are engaged -- Valle Barreda [cf. FontNotes] suggests a feline attacking a deer](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210325027_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a scene in which two quadrupeds are engaged -- Valle Barreda [cf. FontNotes] suggests a feline attacking a deer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
animal - mammal - feline - deer - fighting - detail
![a scene in which two quadrupeds are engaged -- Valle Barreda [cf. FontNotes] suggests a feline attacking a deer](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210325028_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a scene in which two quadrupeds are engaged -- Valle Barreda [cf. FontNotes] suggests a feline attacking a deer
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - beaded-tape motif - columns - columns with capitals
Scene Description: view of the west side -- the arch-heads have beaded-tape decoration; the capitals have varied shape and decoration; the columns become piping that contiunues down under the bowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: of triangular shape in every spandrel of the arcade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
design element - motifs - vine - acanthus or grapevine
Scene Description: the tail of the animal on the ffar left becomes a vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of basin - detail
Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim, characteristic of the stone being splitted by a metal staple from a former cover anchoring
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of basin - interior
Scene Description: showing the drain hole
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Trastolillo, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 May 2019 by Trastolillo [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Gallega_-_Iglesia_02.jpg] [accessed 25 March 2021]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of church interior - looking west
Scene Description: in the 1960s the font was located beneath the west gallery
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of church interior - south aisle - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of font - north side
![notice here how the trunk of the vine becomes the tail of the quadruped [a feline]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210325023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: notice here how the trunk of the vine becomes the tail of the quadruped [a feline]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of font - northwest side
Scene Description: the feline on the left attacks the cervid [a deer?] on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of font - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of font - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of font in context - north side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of font in context - northeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
view of font in context - west side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2021
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 25 March 2021]
INFORMATION
FontID: 00583GAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: 09612 La Gallega, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N-234, 15 km SSE of Salas de los Infantes, 70 km SE of Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Dióceis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Sierra de la Demanda
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, S aisle [formerly at the W end of the nave, beneath the gallery]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: [cf. FontNotes]
Cognate Fonts: Vadillo, Zayuelas, etc. [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pedro Lozano Huerta for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1996). Described and illustrated in Valle Barreda (2009), who suggests a workshop that produced the fonts at Vadillo and Zayuelas, in Soria province. The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 25 March 2021] notes: "iglesia dedicada a la Asunción de Nuestra Señora, barroca [...] La pila es románica con arcos en relieve, cenefa vegetal y borde moldurado y tiene base poligonal." Baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the large hemispherical basin has a vine covering part of the side, but it becomes a hunting scene in which one quadruped attacks another [Valle Barreda (ibid.) suggests a feline attacking a deer], as the tail of one animal becomes the central trunk of the vine; an arcade of round beaded-tape arches below, on columns with capitals; varied motifs and symbols in the spandrels; on a modern (?) base. No cover present but there is evidence of damage to the upper rim from former metal anchorings. Noted and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/burgos_LA_GALLEGA.pdf] [accessed 26 March 2021], which notes similarities with other fonts in the area: "La pila parece salida del mismo taller que realizó las sorianas de Vadillo y Zayuelas en las que se repite el motivo de la lucha de animales, relacionándose también con las de Blacos, Espeja de San Marcelino, Muriel de la Fuente, etc"
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.898993, -3.265086
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 53′ 56.38″ N, 3° 15′ 54.31″ W
UTM: 30T 478012 4638596
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: 2?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 110 cm* / 113 cm*
Basin Total Height: 71.5 cm**
Height of Base: 23 cm** [modern]
Font Height (less Plinth): 100 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Bilbao (1996: 279) / ** Enciclopedia del románico... [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La pila bautismal románica de Mazariegos (Burgos): una representación de la Jerusalem celeste", t. XV, 1-2, Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1998, pp. 197-203; p. 198
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009