Melgar de Arriba

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angel

Scene Description: several, putto-like

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scene Description: museum plaque [no original church in Melgar de Arriba disclosed -- cf. FontNotes]

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)

view of building exterior

Scene Description: the museum [cf. FontNotes]

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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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the museum [cf. FontNotes]

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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view of font in context

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."

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]

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view of font in context

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)

view of font in context

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)

view of font in context

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)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02345VAL

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo [Fabio Nelli] de Valladolid

Church/Chapel: [originally from the Iglesia de Santiago in Melgar -- now in The Museo de Valladolid]

Church Patron Saints: [cf. FontNotes]

Country Name: Spain

Location: Valladolid, Castilla y León

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

Font Location in Church: [in the museum, at the entrance, in the open-air atrium]

Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance

Cognate Fonts: Villabaruz (similar to this work), as well as another font, fragmented, in this same Museo

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

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

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.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.266667, -5.1

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 16′ 0″ N, 5° 6′ 0″ W

UTM: 30T 326807 4681520

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

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

Wattenberg García, Eloísa, Museo de Valladolid, Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 1997