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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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Apostle or saint - bird on either side - unidentified

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: under an arch; left hand to his middle, right arm to his chest

Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: both hands to his middle

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: hands down; palms to the front

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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Apostle or saint - unidentified - orant pose

Scene Description: under an arch; palms of the hands forward at upper chest level

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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animal - mammal - lion

Scene Description: biting its leg

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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design element - motifs - leaf - palm

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2003 by Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info]

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design element - motifs - plant

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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design element - motifs - plant - palmette

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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design element - patterns - torsade

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design element - patterns - torsade

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human figure - male - 2 - fighting?

Scene Description: the bearded figure on the left is about to strike a blow on the figure on the right whom he holds by the hair [Peter and Malco in the Passion cycle?]

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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inscription

Scene Description: "MNA" [the N reversed]

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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inscription

Scene Description: both inscriptions are visible here: in the centre, just right of the centre figure's head, the letters "MNA"; farther right, just right of the head of the second figure, the Greek letters alpha and omega

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 February 2015 by Monestirs Puntcat [www.flickr.com/photos/monestirspuntcat/16526212110/in/photostream/] [accessed 20 September 2020]

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symbol - plant - quatrefoil/tetragram

symbol - tree - Tree of life

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 February 2015 by Monestirs Puntcat [www.flickr.com/photos/monestirspuntcat/16526212110/in/photostream/] [accessed 20 September 2020]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 22 February 2015 by Monestirs Puntcat [www.flickr.com/photos/monestirspuntcat/16687701666/in/photostream/] [accessed 20 September 2020]

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view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2015 by Julia Guerra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2015 by Julia Guerra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (19/6/2003)

view of church exterior - northwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2015 by Julia Guerra

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 July 2017 by Jordiferrer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monestir_de_Sant_Joan_les_Fonts_2017_-_002.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2020]

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view of church interior - apse

Scene Description: modern painting in the general style of the local Romanesque

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2015 by Julia Guerra

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view of church interior - crucifix

Scene Description: a replica of the early-12thC original displayed in the Museu de Arte de Gerona / Museo d'art de Girona

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2015 by Julia Guerra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 January 2015 by Alberto-g-rovi [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monasterio_de_Sant_Joan_les_Fonts_(10).JPG] [accessed 20 September 2020]

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view of church interior - looking west

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view of font

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (19/6/2003)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 April 2015 by Julia Guerra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 September 2020)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 May 2016 by Tardor62 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pila_baptismal_del_segle_XII.jpg] [accessed 20 September 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 02255FON

Church/Chapel: Monasterio / Monestir (Benedictine) de Sant Joan les Fonts [formerly a priory]

Church Patron Saints: St. John (?) [original priory dedicated to Sts. John the Baptist, Michael & Stephen]

Church Location: Avda. Rafel Torras, 30, 17857 Sant Joan les Fonts, Girona, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located just N of the town of the same name, of Sant Joan les Fonts, off the GI-522, the road to Besalu, 4 km NE of Olot

Historical Region: La Garrocha / La Garrotxa

Font Location in Church: From a time unknown until the late 1940s it was half-built into the wall; later moved to the present location

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: related to the font at Beuda?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of www.romanicat.net, Andrés Ortega [www.romanicoennavarra.info] and Julia Guerra for their images of this church and font

Church Notes: priory dated 958; monastery documented 1079; new church consecrated 1117; restored late-20thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Illustrated in Carbonell i Esteller ([s.d.]). Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ); probably from a Benedictine monastery, this font is supposed to share the Lombardic influence present in the rest of the sculptural ornamentation seen throughout the church; the sides of the font bear the following ornamentation [L-->R]: 1)hieratic male figure with a bird on either side on the ground; 2)lion, appears to be biting its own leg; 3)foliage or plant; 4)hieratic male figure under and arch; 5)torsade column; 6)Tree of life (?); 7)hieratic male figure under an arch, showing palms forward; 8)torsade column; 9)large palm leaf; 10)torsade column; 11)hieratic male figure under an arch, left hand to middle, right hand to chest; 12)quatrefoil acanthus arrangement; 13)hieratic male figure, both hands to middle; the head is missing but the letters alpha and omega appear to the right of his head; 14)quatrefoil acanthus arangement; 15)fight scenes: bearded figure on the left holds a sword in the right hand about to strike; his left hand holds the victim (?) by the hair; the figure on the right appears to be male as well; holds something on the left hand (?); 16)hieratic male figure under an arch. the right hand raised in benediction while the hand holds a large key [St. Peter?]; 17) hieratic male figure under an arch, hands down with open palms showing; a thick rope moulding frames the bottom of the basin side. Bilbao (1996) identifies the figure with the palms of the hands facing front as St. John the Baptist before Salome]. The underbowl is round and chamfered, and has another rope moulding about half way down. Catalunya romànica (ibid.) dates the work towards the middle of the 12th century and does not offer an explanation or interpretation of the iconographic program on the font. This same source (ibid.) reports the presence of an inscription, the letters MNA, on the basin but suggests that it may have been added at a later date. From a time unknown the font had been half-built into a wall; in the late 1940s it was brought out to its present position [NB: local information at Sant Joan refers that the font had an upper rope moulding at the rim; this moulding disappeared ca. 1700]. Noted and illustrated in La Garrotxa (2005) with date towards the middle of the 12th century. Amoraga has a monographic article on this font [unpublished? 2009? Source: www.circuloromanico.com] in which she agrees with the identification of the two bearded humans as the Sacrifice of Isaac; the hieratic figure she interprets as Christ after the Resurrection, and the inscription as 'EMNA' followed by the alpha and omega, as 'Emmanuel, beginning and end. Amoraga (ibid.) relates this font to the one at Beuda, which, the author states, is made of the same type of stone. [NB: the new parish church in Sant Joan les Fonts is 19th-century].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.2175, 2.515

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 13′ 3″ N, 2° 30′ 54″ E

UTM: 31T 459970 4674039

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: cylindrical (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining

Rim Thickness: 13 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 84 cm [calculated]

Diameter (includes rim): 120 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 81 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Amoraga ([2009?])

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Greek

Inscription Location: the Greek letters appear on the side, next to a figure

Inscription Text: 1) [alpha omega] 2) "MNA"

Inscription Source: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 346)

REFERENCES

La Garrotxa: els pobles medievals de Girona, Barcelona: March Editor, 2005

Amoraga, Maria Galizia, "La pila bautismal de Sant Joan les Fonts", [2009?]

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

Buron, Vicenç, Esglésies romàniques catalanes, 2a. ed., Barcelona: Artestudi, 1980

Carbonell i Esteller, Eduard, Art romànic a Catalunya, segle XII, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1974-1975

Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-