Respenda de Aguilar

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

Results: 16 records

animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified - fighting human

Scene Description: probably meant to be a dragon, but looking somewhat like a giant squid with a healthy set of serrated teeth

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

animal - mammal - quadruped - fighting - 2

Scene Description: one of the two, probably a lion, seen here in a passant-regardant pose

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

cleric - priest - standing - holding object - 3

three figures stand full front dressed in hieratic garb; two are clearly bearded; all three are holding objects: one may be a Host, another a book or a box...

Scene Description: three figures stand full front dressed in hieratic garb; two are clearly bearded; all three are holding objects: one may be a Host, another a book or a box...

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

design element - architectural - arch-head - round - 3

Scene Description: the arche-heads frame the heads of the three standing figures on the south and shoutheast side of the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

design element - motifs - floral

Scene Description: several types, some quatrefoiled, others trefoiled, others yet bifloiled

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

design element - motifs - foliage - varied

Scene Description: like the floral motifs, several types, some quatrefoiled, others trefoiled, others yet bifloiled

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

design element - motifs - interlace - beaded-tape

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

human figure - male - holding club - fighting a fabulous animal or monster

a male figure, is seen here looking towards the righht and carrying a large club, attacks a monster from behind, while another figure, not visible here, stabs the monster from the front; only the the curled part of the beast's tail is visible here on the right [approximately on the north to northwest side of the basin]

Scene Description: a male figure, is seen here looking towards the righht and carrying a large club, attacks a monster from behind, while another figure, not visible here, stabs the monster from the front; only the the curled part of the beast's tail is visible here on the right [approximately on the north to northwest side of the basin]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

human figure - male - warrior - wearing armour - with sword in the right hand - with long shield in the left hand

Scene Description: the coat-of-mail totally covers head, arms and body -- approximately on the south side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

human figure - male - warrior - wearing armour - with sword in the right hand - with long shield in the left hand - fighting a monster

the warrior is wears in coat-of-mail armour covering his body; arms and head; he strikes the monster with his sword while the beast bites into his long shield -- the whole scene, involving the two warriors and the monster, covers almost half the side of the basin, approximately from the north side all the way to the south

Scene Description: the warrior is wears in coat-of-mail armour covering his body; arms and head; he strikes the monster with his sword while the beast bites into his long shield -- the whole scene, involving the two warriors and the monster, covers almost half the side of the basin, approximately from the north side all the way to the south

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of church interior - looking west

showing the west gallery and the west entranceway -- the baptismal font can be partially seen in a chapel on the left [south] side wall

Scene Description: showing the west gallery and the west entranceway -- the baptismal font can be partially seen in a chapel on the left [south] side wall

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of font - north side

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

view of font and iconographic program

Image Source: drawing in Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-)

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

view of font in context - northwest side

Scene Description: a vaulted chapel on the south side, west end of the nave

Image Source: digital photograph taken in July 2019 by Rosa Zazo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 15 July 2019)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02163RES

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista

Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist

Church Location: c/ Recta, 10, 34813 Respenda de Aguilar, Palencia, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Palencia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located off the PP-7227, N of the N-627 and E of the N-611, in the municipality of Pomar de Valdivia, 15 km ESE of Aguilar de Campoo, in the NE area of the province

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a vaulted chapel of the S side wall, at the W end of the nave

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rosa Zazo for her photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: late-Romanesque church modified 18thC; both the village and the church are reported semi-abandoned, parts of the church in a ruinous state

Font Notes: Click to view

Baptismal font dated to the 14th century in the Patrimonio Artistico de España (Martin Gonzalez, 1977-). Described in Bilbao (1996.) and in García Guinea (1998) as a baptismal font of the Romanesque period; the rim has profused ornamentation; the basin sides have a dragon being attacked by two warriors, three male figures holding objects in their hands and a battle scene between two monstrous animals; the base is plain. Bilbao (ibid. mentions the possibility that these three figures may be clerics ["hombres de Iglesia"] whose function may be related to the dispensation of baptism. The Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-), which dates the font towards the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, points out the thematic common places with the programs on the fonts at Cantoral de la Peña, Rebanal de las Llantas and Valcobero, in the same area; this same source notes that the iconographic program of this font does not appear to constitute a narrative, but rather it gives the sense of being a selection of samples from the carver's own visual experience or items taken from a book of models. Noted in Martín Jiménez (2008). There is no cover present but the side of the font against the back wall has a large church missing from the upper rim, an indication that it was damaged by the metal anchorings of an earlier cover.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.747389, -4.100531

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 44′ 50.6″ N, 4° 6′ 1.91″ W

UTM: 30T 409931 4733351

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm* / 94 cm**

Basin Total Height: 54 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 92 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-, vol. 3: 413)] / ** Bilbao (1996: 306) and García Guinea (1998: 379)

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

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

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998

Martín González, J.J., Inventario Artístico de Palencia y su Provincia, Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1977-1980

Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008

Ruiz Bragado, F., "Pilas de bautismo romanicas en Palencia: Estudio de seis nuevos ejemplares", III Congreso de Historia de Palencia, 1995