Leon No. 1 / León

Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

Results: 27 records

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Apostle or saint - headless - St. John the Baptist?

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

Apostle or saint? - unidentified

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: Includes the presence of one angel -- seen here on the left side of the image

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

Old Testament - Story of Moses - Moses on Mount Sinai with the tables of the law (Exodus 24:9-18, 31:18)

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

angel - cherub - 4

Scene Description: the large figures of the basin side rest their feet on these heads

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

coat of arms

Scene Description: Shield has two different motifs: a winged arm holding a sword in two of the quarters, diagonally, while the other two have a rampant lion in each

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all around the upper basin side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus

Scene Description: the lower torus much thicker than the upper

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: all around the basin serving as back-drop for the scenes

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

human figure - warrior - with shield

Scene Description: holding the left side of a large shield with a coat of arms

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

human figure - warrior - with shield

Scene Description: holding the right side of a large shield with a coat of arms

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 March 2014 by David Jiménez Llanes [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_Gótica_de_León.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

view of church interior - east end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Mikel Unanue

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 23 June 2019)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Carolyn Caesar taken 12 June 2006

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

view of font cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 13 June 1999 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: Permission to photograph font given by D. Casimiro, canon, Leon Cathedral.

INFORMATION

FontID: 02272LEO

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Catedral de Santa María la Regla / Pulchra Leonina

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Plaza Regla, s/n, 24003 León, Spain -- Tel.: +34 987 87 57 70

Country Name: Spain

Location: León, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located in the historic centre of town, the portal with the Apocalipsis facing the Plaza Regla, towrds the N side of Barrio Humedo

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de León

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the Capilla de San Francisco

Date: 1532-1534

Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Juan de Badajoz

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Carolyn Caesar for her photograph of this font, and to Mikel Unanue for his photograph of the interior east end

Church Notes: cathedral started mid-13thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font illustrated in Gómez-Moreno (1983, vol. 2: fig. 353), where it is dated "1523-1534". On-site notes: magnificent baptismal font of the Renaissance period, the work of Juan de Badajoz (1495?-1955) [aka Juan de Badajoz el Mozo]. Looking like an oversized cinerary urn, the font has a large bowl and a squat base, the latter made up of a large scotia over a wider torus. The basin has scenes and figures over a background of scallop/fish scale pattern. The lid resembles those found in cinerary urns as well. The interior of the bowl is lined with lead.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.599444, -5.566667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 35′ 58″ N, 5° 34′ 0″ W

UTM: 30T 289435 4719529

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: three (bowl, base, plinth)

Font Shape: chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 11 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 82 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 104 cm

Basin Depth: 60 cm

Basin Total Height: 70 cm

Height of Base: 50 cm (includes plinth 20 cm)

Font Height (with Plinth): 120 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

LID INFORMATION

Date: same as font?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Gómez-Moreno, Manuel, Catálogo monumental de España: Provincia de León, León: Ed. Nebrija, 1979