Mazariegos
Image copyright © Rosa García Nieves, 2013
Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2014)
Results: 29 records
B01: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
Scene Description: each containing a different motif or symbol
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005
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B02: symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle
Scene Description: in the arches
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B03: design element - motifs - floral - flower - rosette - in a circle
Scene Description: in the arches
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B04: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4-petal
Scene Description: trefoiled petals
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B05: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 2
Scene Description: in the left and right arches arches shown
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B06: symbol - triquetra
Scene Description: in the arches
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B07: symbol - star - 4-point
Scene Description: in the arches
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B08: symbol - star - 7-point
Scene Description: in the arches
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B09: symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese
Scene Description: in the arches
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B10: symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - rounded arms
Scene Description: in the arches
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B11: design element - motifs - radiated
Scene Description: flower-ilke, with 6-petal radiated centre; in the arches
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view of font in context
Scene Description: as displayed in the museum in August 2013
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Rosa García Nieves
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view of font
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view of font
![as displayed in the museum [MAN] in 2005](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1051118058_compressed.png)
Scene Description: as displayed in the museum [MAN] in 2005
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Grama [www.arteguias.com]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa García Nieves, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Rosa García Nieves
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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view of basin - detail
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inscription
![[cf. Inscription area]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1141018031_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]
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view of basin - upper view - detail
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: around the outer corner of the rim
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design element - motifs - foliage - scroll
Scene Description: or garland, all around
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design element - patterns - billette
Scene Description: it appears to be made of little squares
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view of basin - upper view
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design element - motifs - zigzag
Scene Description: a band of triangular motifs containing the inscription and making up a zigzag pattern all around the upper rim surface
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information
Scene Description: the museum plaque by the font
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: all around the lower base, though damaged and broken off in some areas
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02081MAZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2005-07-05
Font Date: ca. 1152-1161?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Petrus
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Museum: Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid, Spain), No. de expediente 1932/8
Church / Chapel Name: [Orig. from the now in ruins parish church at Mazariegos, Burgos prov. - Now at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid (Spain)]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: [NB: adress & coordinates given for the original location of the village] Mazariegos, Palencia, Spain
Site Location: Burgos, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Mazariegos site [in ruins] is located 32 km SE of Burgos capital -- The font is now in Sala 32 of the M.A.N. [Mazariegos is located in the area of the Sierra de la Demanda, Burgos province]
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Revilla Vielva (1933). Described in Pérez Carmona (1974). Listed in Guerra (1986 c1978). Described in Bilbao (1996) and (1998). Noted in Valle Barreda (2009) who gives the date of its removal from the abanoned village and church as the 1950s. Romanesque baptismal font: the rim of the basin has a band that starts with a triangular motif in which the letters of an inscription are contained [cf. Inscription] and ends in a rope motif; below, a band of pearl motif and a wavy vegetal garland [rather a scroll]; farther down the bowl sides there are twenty round arches, each containing a different ornament: Greek crosses, flowers, trefoils, all encircled and showing traces of polychromy; the bowl rests on a round plinth ornamented with rope motif. Bilbao (1998) argues for the symbolism of the program as a representation of a celestial Jerusalem [NB: Bilbao points out (ibid.) that, contrary to Guerra's description (1978), the lower base is not ornamented with man-eating lions, but with a rope moulding. As a matter of fact Guerra does not make such a claim; his footnote (p. 82 fn33) includes the Mazariegos font among a number of "pilas románicas de bautismo de inmersión" and it is in the text, not in the footnote, where two fonts, Bareyo and Valleberg, are identified as fonts with "leones andrófagos" - Bareyo is in Santander, Spain, and Valleberga is in Scania, in southern Sweden [formerly Denmark], both with entries in this Index]. The inscription [cf. inscription area below] shows the date "era MCXC", but it may have been truncated of the last digits; the date as is, i.e., 1190 of the Era, would correspond to 1152 A.D., or, if digits are missing, up to 1161 A.D. García Guinea (2004) uses the range "1152-1161", which may have been copied from the M.A.N.'s label. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ) notes the fonts at Cojobar, Madrigal del Monte, Mecerreyes, Zalduendo, Tornadijo, Valdorros, Villamayor de los Montes and Mazariegos as sharing design, ornamentation and dating at the late-12th or early 13th century.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma, of www.arteguias.com, and Rosa García Nieves, for their photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 357975 4654131
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Diameter (inside rim): 127 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 190 cm**
Basin Total Height: 75 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 31 cm [calculated]
Notes on Measurements: *Bilbao (1996: 283) -- **Bilbao (1998: 197) [NB: the discrepancy in measurements between the two diameters given in Bilbao has been used tentatively here as inner and outer diameters of the basin -- to be confirmed]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: On the upper rim of the bowl
Inscription Text: 1. "[...] DE MCXC[.] [.] / PETRUS ME FECIT"
2. "[...] ERA MCXC[...] PET[R]US ME FIZO"
3. "[...] DE MCXX [...] PETRUS ME FECIT"
Inscription Notes: Too worn to be totally legible, according to Bilbao (1996: 252), but gives version 1. -- Bilbao's later article (1998: 203) gives version 2. as the transcription provided by the Museo Arqueológico Nacional. version 3 appears in García Guinea (2004) [NB: note that the date is transcribed differently]
Inscription Source: Bilbao (1996: 252); Bilbao (1998: 203 and fn27); García Guinea (2004)
REFERENCES
- Historia del arte de Castilla y León, [León?]: Ambito; Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Cultura y Turismo, 1994-1998, vol. II: 51
- 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. 197-203
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La pila bautismal románica de San Pedro de Villanueva (Asturias)", t. XVI, 1-2, Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1998, pp. 161-166; p. 165
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 40, 47, 63, 75, 80, 87, 107, 252, 255, 262, 283
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, "El románico nominado: arquitectos y escultores que dejaron constancia de sus nombres", Los protagonistas de la obra románica, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real/Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2004, p. 115
- Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978, p. 82 and fn33
- Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974, p. 123
- Revilla Vielva, Ramón, "Pila bautismal románica de Mazariegos", Museo Arqueológico Nacional: adquisiciones en 1932, Madrid: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1933, p. 3-4 and pl. I-III
- Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009, p. 508