Mazariegos

Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2014)

Results: 29 records

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B01: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: each containing a different motif or symbol

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B02: symbol - cross - Greek - in a circle

Scene Description: in the arches

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B03: design element - motifs - floral - flower - rosette - in a circle

Scene Description: in the arches

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B04: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4-petal

Scene Description: trefoiled petals

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B05: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle - 2

Scene Description: in the left and right arches arches shown

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B06: symbol - triquetra

Scene Description: in the arches

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B07: symbol - star - 4-point

Scene Description: in the arches

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B08: symbol - star - 7-point

Scene Description: in the arches

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B09: symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese

Scene Description: in the arches

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B10: symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - rounded arms

Scene Description: in the arches

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B11: design element - motifs - radiated

Scene Description: flower-ilke, with 6-petal radiated centre; in the arches

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

design element - motifs - foliage - scroll

Scene Description: or garland, all around

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: around the outer corner of the rim

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: all around the lower base, though damaged and broken off in some areas

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

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

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

design element - patterns - billette

Scene Description: it appears to be made of little squares

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

information

Scene Description: the museum plaque by the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Rosa García Nieves

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2014)

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Inscription area]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Rosa García Nieves

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2014)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Rosa García Nieves

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2014)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Rosa García Nieves

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2014)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Rosa García Nieves

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2014)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Rosa García Nieves

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2014)

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of basin - upper view - detail

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken by David de la Grama [www.arteguias.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permision to` reproduce received (e-mail 24/9/2003)

view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum [MAN] in 2005

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of font in context

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum in August 2013

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 August 2013 by Rosa García Nieves

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 October 2014)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02081MAZ

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid, Spain)

Church/Chapel: [Orig. from the now in ruins parish church at Mazariegos, Burgos prov. - Now at the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid (Spain)]

Church Location: [NB: adress & coordinates given for the original location of the village] Mazariegos, Palencia, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

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 Location in Church: [in a museum]

Date: ca. 1152-1161?

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Petrus

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

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

Font Notes: Click to view

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.

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 357975 4654131

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted) -- chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

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 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 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 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

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

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

Guerra, Manuel, Simbología románica: el cristianismo y otras religiones en el arte románico, Madrid: Fundación Universitaria Española, 1986, c1978

Pérez Carmona, J., Arquitectura y Escultura Románicas en la Provincia de Burgos, Burgos: Facultad de Teología del Norte de España, 1974

Revilla Vielva, Ramón, "Pila bautismal románica de Mazariegos", Museo Arqueológico Nacional: adquisiciones en 1932, Madrid: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1933

Valle Barreda, César del, Todo el románico de Burgos, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, 2009