Escunyau No. 1 / Escunhau / Escuñau

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Christ - Agnus Dei - with cross

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

Christ - monogram - Alpha and Omega

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 24/4/2003)

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - intersecting arches

Scene Description: seen here, faintly, at the bottom, left side of the image

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

design element - architectural - column - decorated column

Scene Description: as if they were the columns of an arcade, but here they serve as links of some of the circles

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

design element - motifs - circle - intersecting

Scene Description: seen here at the bottom, right side of the image

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

design element - motifs - circle - linked circles

Scene Description: around the part of side of the basin; they have a variety of motifs and symbols in the upper and lower spandrels

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Merçé Rota Serra

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: seen here to the right of the chrismon, on the horizontal partition

design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: in some of the spandrels

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

human figure - artisan - sculptor - with tools

Scene Description: the artisan who made the font?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

human figure - head

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

human figure - with object - unidentified (bird and beaker?)

Scene Description: Herod and the cuckold?

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

symbol - chrismon

Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 24/4/2003)

view of basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Scene Description: on the lintel above the portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Isidre blanc [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SANT_PERE_D'ESCUNHAU_-_IB-759.JPG] [accessed 6 June 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Scene Description: capitals on the east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2006 by Ainhoa [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Escunhau_-_Sant_Pere.jpg] [accessed 6 June 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Scene Description: capitals on the west side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2013 by Isidre blanc [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SANT_PERE_D'ESCUNHAU_-_IB-758.JPG] [accessed 6 June 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - north portal - detail

Scene Description: bses of the columns on the east side

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - door - lock

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - north portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI

view of church exterior - north view

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 15 August 2013 by Isidre blanc [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SANT_PERE_D'ESCUNHAU_-_IB-760.JPG] [accessed 6 June 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south view

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 15 August 2013 by Isidre blanc [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SANT_PERE_D'ESCUNHAU_-_IB-767.JPG] [accessed 6 June 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 18 June 1999 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: Photograph of the font ca. 1956

Image Source: Soldevila (1956: 251) [orig. Oficina de Turismo de Pobla de Segur]

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 19 May 2015)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02322ESC

Church/Chapel: Sant Pere / Sant Pèir / San Pedro

Church Patron Saints: St. Peter

Church Location: Camin Bosc d'Arto Costa, 30, 25539 Escunhau, Lleida, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: In the Vall d'Aran, 2.5 kms E of Vielha on the Bonaigua road

Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a side chapel, western end of church

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

Cognate Fonts: Gausac / Gaussac

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com], to Merçé Rota Serra and to Txaro Irgoyen for the added photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted in Gudiol (2008) from his 1907 visit. Noted in Buron (1980) as a Romanesque baptismal font ornamented with figures. The first article in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) shies away from an interpretation of the human-figure-with-stick-and-bird image; the second article cites Sarrate i Forga's 'El arte románico en el Mig-Aran' in which the object is interpreted as a Tau cross, but it continues to offer its own interpretation suggesting that the object on the stick is indeed a bird which, according to Champeaux and Sterckx' (1972), usually an eagle, is a symbol of sovereign power received or exercised from heaven [="del poder rebut o exercit des del cel"]; of the other human figure bearing tools, it does not offer an explanation [="no hem pogut escatir el significat"]; of the chrismon, it offers that this representation is an exception on a baptismal font [="la presència d'aquest element aquí constitueix una excepció"] [NB: not an accurate statement since the chrismon is represented in other fonts in nearby France]. This article may have a more interesting suggestion in that the division into the set segments may have its root in that of the earlier sarcophagi. It also possits that the similarity between the ornamentation on this font and that of Gausac makes one think that both works were executed by the same hand or workshop, a local one to judge by the low technical quality of the work [="... a creure que es tractava d'un taller local, de baixa qualitat tècnica"]; it also offers that, despite the patent archaic appearance of the piece, it should be dated to around the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century [="malgrat l'arcaisme [...] creiem que ha d'ésser datada entorn del final del segle XII o el principi del XIII"]. On-site notes: wide cylindrical basin has short vertical sides decorated in four parts: a chrismon, a human figure with carving tools [the artist (?)], an Agnus Dei and, to its left, another figure carrying in his right hand a staff on which is perched a bird, while his right hand holds what looks like a vase or beaker [Herod and the cuckold?]; these are framed inside circles, the circles themselves are shaped into figures, trees and other shapes; the spandrels between the circles have varied motifs: a human head, floral.... A fine work. The iron staples of the original cover are still in place in the upper rim. The base, in contrast, is a totally plain cylindrical shaft. Described and illustrated in Amiell (2007).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.69661, 0.825073

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 41′ 47.8″ N, 0° 49′ 30.26″ E

UTM: 31T 321852 4729418

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (local)

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 10-12 cm*

Diameter (inside rim): 82-83 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 104-105 cm*

Basin Depth: 34 cm*

Basin Total Height: 48 cm* / 44 cm**

Height of Base: 42 cm* / 43 cm**

Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm* / 87 cm**

Notes on Measurements: * BSI onsite / ** Catalunya rom... (1984- , v. XIII: 417)

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: letters

Inscription Notes: the alpha and omega of the chrismon

Inscription Location: on one of the sides of the basin

Inscription Text: [alpha and omega]

LID INFORMATION

Notes: iron staples in the rim

REFERENCES

Alcolea Blanch, Santiago, La missió arqueològica del 1907 als Pirineus, Barcelona: Fundació Institut Amatller d'Art Hispànic; Obra Social, Fundació La Caixa, 2008

Amiell, Josep M., "Piques baptismal de la Val d'Aran", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 32-35; r["References"]

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

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

Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999

Soldevila, Carles, Bellesa de Catalunya: art, vida, paisatge, Barcelona: Editorial Aedos, 1956