Robladillo de Ucieza
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Results: 28 records
B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - siren - female
Scene Description: Two-tailed siren has long mane, prominent bust and her sex indicated between the two tails
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005
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B02: human figure - male - Spinario
Scene Description: Male figure appears to be in precarious balance -- most likely Spinario
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005
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B03: human figure - male - bearded - 2
Scene Description: the figure on the left old, bearded and dressed in rich long garment faces the right -- the figure on the right appears youinger, dressed in a shorter garment faces left but the left hand appears extended (?) towards the right
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005
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B04: devil(s) and demons - kneeling or crouching - chained?
Scene Description: its left arm is being held by the figure to the right
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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005
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B05: cleric - bishop? - with staff in left hand
Scene Description: his right hand holds up the devil's arm
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B06: devil(s) and demons - fighting? - 3
Scene Description: two face each other and appear engaged in a fight; the third lurks behind to the right
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B07: animal - fabulous animal or monster - centaur - with bow and arrow
Scene Description: a centaur appears to point his bow and arrow to the double-tailed siren
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B08: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: incised rather than carved
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BBL01: design element - motifs - garland
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BBL02: design element - motifs - roll moulding
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BBU01: design element - motifs - garland (and/or snake)
Scene Description: the end that appears over the siren's head is definitely a snake head
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BBU02: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4
Scene Description: between the two tips of the garland-snake, approximately above the siren and Spinario
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view of basin - upper view
Scene Description: note the two metal staples , as well as the decorative pattern on the upper surface
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: Bishop's (?) baculum
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Scene Description: second and third wrestlin (?) devils
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Scene Description: two of the wrestling (?) devils
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Scene Description: two bearded men and chained devil
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Scene Description: Bishop (?) holding the chained devil's arm
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Scene Description: Siren
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Scene Description: Chained devil
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Scene Description: Spinario
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Scene Description: [rough sketch by MT shows sequence of scenes]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02166ROB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 1999-06-01; 2005-06-21
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: some scenes related to those on the font at Calahorra de Boedo; somewhat similar to the fonts at Colmenares de Ojeda y Calahorra de Boedo
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Saturnino
Font Location in Church: In the baptistery [sacristy?], W end, S side
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Saturninus
Church Address: 34127 Robladillo de Ucieza, Palencia, Spain
Site Location: Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Val-de-Ucieza, at the junction P243-P24, 21-22 km WWN of Osorno
Additional Comments: Visited the village but the priest who had the key was not there. The other person who had a second key had died. Visit it again next time. -- Second visit (blood, sweat and tears! but M managed to get in after an hour-long plea -- H thinks some connection with other works -- perhaps same artist or workshop -- to be followed up + write-out) -- DVD with photos and write-up sent to churchwarden [Maria Luisa Cofreces -- c/Cantarranas, 4 -- Robladillo de Ucieza - PALENCIA - Spain] on 22 November 2005 -- load of cobblers about not permitting access to the font recently: where did Kroesne & Steensma get their pics from?
Font Notes:
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Listed in Sancho Campo (1971). Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996) and in García Guinea (1998): baptismal font of the Romanesque period [G-G (ibid.) suggests late 12th or early 13th century ["ya casi del siglo XIII"]]. Martín Jiménez (2008), too, suggests the 13th century. On-site notes: bucket-shaped basin adorned with scenes [L->R]: a siren of long mane and prominent bust has a double tail with a marked incision for the sex at the juncture of the tails -- a figure that appears to be a Spinario -- two gowned and bearded humans facing each other, perhaps embracing -- a crouching devil (?) appears to be in chains and its left arm is held up by the next figure -- a cleric, perhaps a bishop (?) holds up the devil's left arm with his right hand, while the left hand holds a large baculum -- three devils, one with a beak-head appear to be engaged in a fight -- a centaur armed with bow and arrow. All these figures are framed by a running garland at the bottom and another at the top' the body of the top garland is clearly a snake head above the siren. The scene has been identified in one of the sources as a Harrowing of Hell. Large centre ring and quadrangular lower base. Kroesen & Steensma (2004) relate some of the scenes on this font to those on the font at Colmenares de Ojeda; these last authors identify the two-tailed siren with female lust and add: "just as clear is the representation of male lust -- a nude man with heavily emphasized genitals."
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.3977, -4.575
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 23′ 52″ N, 4° 34′ 30″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: bucket-shaped, unmounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage System: centre hole in basin
Drainage Notes: not lined
Diameter (includes rim): 103 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 71 cm
Notes on Measurements: BSI -- Bilbao (1996: 306) and García Guinea (1998: 395)
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: cf. Image Area
REFERENCES
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 38, 40, 53, 132, 135, 171-174, 226, 229-230, 263, 306-307 and fig. 58, 71, 104, 105
- García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998, p. 395-396
- Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004, p. 335-338 and pl. 15-23, 15-31, 15-32
- Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008, p. 95
- Sancho Campo, Angel, "Arqueología de los siglos románicos en el ámbito de la actual provincia de Palencia", Palencia en los siglos del románico, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real - C.E.R., 2002, p. 84
- Sancho Campo, Angel, Arte sacro en Palencia, Palencia: Obispado de Palencia, Comisión Diocesana de Arte, 1971, vol. I: 18