Robladillo de Ucieza

Results: 28 records

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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

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

B02: human figure - male - Spinario

Scene Description: Male figure appears to be in precarious balance -- most likely Spinario

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

B04: devil(s) and demons - kneeling or crouching - chained?

Scene Description: its left arm is being held by the figure to the right

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

B05: cleric - bishop? - with staff in left hand

Scene Description: his right hand holds up the devil's arm

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

B08: design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle

Scene Description: incised rather than carved

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

BBL01: design element - motifs - garland

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

BBL02: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

BBU01: design element - motifs - garland (and/or snake)

Scene Description: the end that appears over the siren's head is definitely a snake head

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

BBU02: design element - motifs - floral - flower - 4

Scene Description: between the two tips of the garland-snake, approximately above the siren and Spinario

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

view of basin

Scene Description: two of the wrestling (?) devils

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Spinario

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Scene Description: Chained devil

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Scene Description: Siren

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Bishop (?) holding the chained devil's arm

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Scene Description: two bearded men and chained devil

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Scene Description: second and third wrestlin (?) devils

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Bishop's (?) baculum

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

view of basin - upper view

Scene Description: note the two metal staples , as well as the decorative pattern on the upper surface

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 21, 2005

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Scene Description: [rough sketch by MT shows sequence of scenes]

Image Source: sequential sketch by MT

INFORMATION

FontID: 02166ROB

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Saturnino

Church Patron Saints: St. Saturninus

Church Location: 34127 Robladillo de Ucieza, Palencia, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Palencia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Val-de-Ucieza, at the junction P243-P24, 21-22 km WWN of Osorno

Font Location in Church: In the baptistery [sacristy?], W end, S side

Century and Period: 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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.3977, -4.575

Church 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 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

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

Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004

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

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

Sancho Campo, Angel, Arte sacro en Palencia, Palencia: Obispado de Palencia, Comisión Diocesana de Arte, 1971