Melgar de Arriba
Image copyright © Francisco José García Gómez, 2017
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Francisco José García Gómez, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 26 April 2017 by Francisco José García Gómez
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 27 April 2017)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
angel
Scene Description: several, putto-like
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
design element - motifs - pointed
Scene Description: all around the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
angel - cherub
Scene Description: all around, below the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: a very thin one
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
human figure - head - wearing hat - in a garland
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
human figure - head - wearing hat - in a garland
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
animal - fabulous animal or monster - triton - 4
Scene Description: triton heads, the bodies mere scrolls
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
information
![museum plaque [no original church in Melgar de Arriba disclosed -- cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150511016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: museum plaque [no original church in Melgar de Arriba disclosed -- cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Garcia Nieves, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 May 2015 by Rosa Garcia Nieves
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 May 2015)
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Palacio clasicista llamado de Fabio Nelli. Valladolid (España). Escalera palaciega a partir de las trazas de Pedro de Mazuecos el Mozo."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lourdes Cardenal, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2008 by Lourdes Cardenal [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valladolid_palacio_Fabio_Nelli_escalera_lou.jpg] [accessed 11 May 2015]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of building exterior
![the museum [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150511014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the museum [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rastrojo, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 April 2009 by Rastrojo [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vista_frontal_de_la_fachada_del_Palacio_de_Fabio_Nelli.JPG] [accessed 11 May 2015]
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![at the museum [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150511013_compressed.png)
Scene Description: at the museum [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lourdes Cardenal, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 July 2008 by Lourdes Cardenal [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Valladolid_palacio_Fabio_Nelli_patio_lou.jpg] [accessed 11 May 2015]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02345VAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Renaissance
Cognate Fonts: Villabaruz (similar to this work), as well as another font, fragmented, in this same Museo
Museum: Museo [Fabio Nelli] de Valladolid, Inv. No. 10630
Church / Chapel Name: [originally from the Iglesia de Santiago in Melgar -- now in The Museo de Valladolid]
Font Location in Church: [in the museum, at the entrance, in the open-air atrium]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. James the Elder, Apostle
Site Location: Valladolid, Castilla y León, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Melgar de Arriba is located in the northernmost area of the Tierra de Campos region -- The Museo is located on Plaza Fabio Nelli, downtown Valladolid
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Valladolid
Historical Region: Tierra de Campos
Additional Comments: [NB: confirmation received from Melgar de Arriba: e-mail from Socorro Martinez confirming this is the font now -March 2003- in the Museo de Valladolid -- also www.melgardearriba.com web site has now (May 2003) added pphotos and text on the font]
Font Notes:
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Listed in Martín González (1972) as a noteworthy baptismal font of the 16th century. Described in Wattenberg Garcia (1997) as a baptismal font of the 16th century with figural and symbolic ornamentation; located in the Museo de Valladolid with Inv. No. 10630. [NB: a fragment of a font of the same type but unknown provenance is also housed at this museum -- not listed in this Index until further info becames available]. Information and more images of this font are available as well in the web site www.melgardearriba.com/arteycultura/pila_bautismal.php [accessed April 2003. Noted in Philippus II Rex (1998) as a baptismal font housed in the Museo Nacional de Escultura, in Valladolid. A late font with lush ornamentation is visible at the bottom of the main stairwell at the interior of the Palacio de Fabio Nelli, which houses the museum. The baptismal font consists of a massive roughly hemispherical basin raised on a squat round-to-square lower base; the basin has a row of pointed motif at the upper rim, with a row of cherub heads below; the broad band below a thin rope moulding contains two large wreath-like garlands with a hatted human head inscribid in them; to the sides of the round garlands the area is populated by putti, some winged, some not, as well as scrolling tape and floating heads; at the underbowl is a row of foliage; atop the base is a moulding, and the corners of the square part are decorated with triton-like heads, the bodies mere scrolls trailing along the sides. There are two metal staples from an old font cover at opposite ends of the upper rim, but no cover present. The museum plaque does not inform which of the two churches of Melgar de Arriba (San Miguel / Santiago) the font comes from.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rosa García Nieves and to Francisco José García Gómez for their photographs of this font; we are also grateful to Cristina Sanchez for the measurements of the font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 326807 4681520
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.266667, -5.1
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 16′ 0″ N, 5° 6′ 0″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: chalice-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 143 cm*
Basin Total Height: 73 cm*
Height of Base: 43 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 116 cm [calculated]
Notes on Measurements: * taken by Cristina Sanchez for BSI
LID INFORMATION
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Philippus II Rex, Barcelona: Lunwerg, 1998, p. [149]
- Martín González, Juan José, Inventario artístico de Valladolid y su provincia, Valladolid: Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia, Dirección General de Bellas Artes, Comisaría del Patrimonio Artístico Nacional, 1970, p. 194
- Wattenberg García, Eloísa, Museo de Valladolid, Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 1997, p. 202