Rebanal de las Llantas / Rabanal de las Llantas

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B01: virtues and vices - cardinal sins - Lust (Luxuria, Libido)

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

B02: human figure - warrior - 2 on horseback - jostling - woman stands between them

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

B03: human figure - male and female - fornicating - nude

Scene Description: a tree; an older couple are bringing the fornicating couple together

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

B04: human figure - artisan - musician - musical instrument - stringed instrument with bow

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

B05: human figure - wrestler - 2

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

B06: human figure - female - holding infant in arms

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

BBL01: design element - patterns - festoon - rounded

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

BBU01: design element - motifs - floral - twisted string of pearls with flower inscribed

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

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Image Source: photograph in Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-)

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

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Image Source: photograph in Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-)

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

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Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 1999

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Image Source: drawing by Fernando Garcia Gil

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

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Image Source: drawing by Fernando Garcia Gil

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

INFORMATION

FontID: 02363RAB

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Salvador

Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour

Church Location: 34844 Rebanal de las Llantas, Palencia, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Palencia, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located 12 km NW of Cervera de Pisuerga and in its municipality

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Palencia

Historical Region: Montaña Palentina

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, N side

Century and Period: 13th century, Romanesque? / Late Romanesque?

Cognate Fonts: the fonts at Cantoral de la Peña, Payo de Ojeda and Respenda de Aguilar, all in Palencia province

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Fernando Garcia Gil, of Amigos del Romanico, for his drawings of the iconographic program on this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described in Ruiz Maldonado (1989); in Hernando Garrido (1993) and in García Guinea (1998). Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1996). In the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-) where the font is described as one of the most interesting specimens in the province, and is related to those Cantoral de la Peña, Payo de Ojeda and Respenda de Aguilar, in the same area, with a date in the 13th century. The basin is bucket-shaped, made of sandstone; the lower base on which it now stands is modern; it has a loose braid of beaded-tape around the upper basin side, floral motifs inside the open spaces of the braid; the lower end of the basin has a crenellated border motif; in between, a number of scenes and figures which Hernando Garrido [cf. supra] describes as lacking coherence or a narrative line ["inconexas y deshilvanadas"], and describes the quality of the work as crude and flat, related to the style found in the fonts at Valcobero and Cantoral de la Peña. Hernando Garrido (ibid.) does, however, add that the scenes may be united by the theme of salvation through baptism by opposing the salvific action of the latter to the baseness of the carnality represented on the scenes; he also argues that the blame for some of the colourful licenses taken by the artist may be laid on the back of the theologically-challenged local clergy of the time (ibid.) On-site notes: very good state of repair of the font, but plinth is modern; the imagery on he basin includes a fornication scene in the presence of servants, another scene of two women being attacked or bitten by snakes, a joust or combat between two mounted knights arbitrated by a woman [a scene identified in several sources as 'tregua domini'], another scene in which a musician plays in front of a woman; iron staples from the old cover still evident in the rim. Noted and illustrated in Martín Jiménez (2008).

COORDINATES

UTM: 30T 267246 4750005

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 12.5-13.5 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 64-65 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 91 cm **[90 cm]

Basin Depth: 35 cm

Basin Total Height: 50 cm **[52 cm]

Height of Base: 37 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 87 cm

Font Height (with Plinth): 93 cm *[94 cm]

Notes on Measurements: BSI *[Bilbao (1996: 306)] **[García Guinea (1998: 367) and the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002-, vol. 3: 575)

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2002-

García Guinea, Miguel Angel, Románico en Palencia: guía, Palencia: Excma. Diputación de Palencia, Dpto. de Cultura, 1998

Hernando Garrido, José Luis, "Nuevas esculturas tardorromanicas en el norte de Palencia", Codex Aqvilarensis: Cuadernos de Investigación del Monasterio de Santa María la Real, Aguilar de Campoo: Centro de Estudios del Románico, 1993

Martín González, J.J., Inventario Artístico de Palencia y su Provincia, Madrid: Servicio de Publicaciones del Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia, 1977-1980

Martín Jiménez, Carlos A., Las mejores rutas por el románico de Palencia, Trobajo del Camino, León: EDILESA, 2008