Cazau / Casau
Results: 7 records
B01: symbol - star
Scene Description: "Sort-of" 6-point star.
B02: animal - fish - 2
Scene Description: Two fishe facing one-another
B03: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: Fleur de lis
B04: Christ - Agnus Dei
Scene Description: Agnus Dei with a cross
B05: animal - bird - peacock - 2 - drinking from chalice
Scene Description: Two peacocks drinking from a single vessel
B06: human figure - with animal
Scene Description: Animals and humans in unidentified scenes
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02317CAZ
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Andreu de Casau
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Casau, 25538 Lérida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: In the hamlet of Cazau, a Viella/Vielha commune
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 15th century, Gothic
Font Notes:
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Durliat calls the style of the baptismal font of Cazau archaistic and does not think that either the font or the stoup can belong to the Romanesque period: "ce travail barbare ne paraît pas pouvoir remonter à l'époque romane". The basin has flat relief carvings showing a six-point star, two fish facing each-other, a fleur-de-lis; there is also an Agnus Dei, a pair of peacocks drinking from a single vessel, and several humans and animals engaged in enigmatic scenes. The base has human heads typical of other Pyrenees fonts (Durliat, 1978, p.206)
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.706487, 0.786446
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 42′ 23.35″ N, 0° 47′ 11.21″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (grey)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Durliat, Marcel, Pyrénées romanes, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1978