Burgos No. 2

Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Results: 59 records

B01: human figure - standing - with a cock next to a lion

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

B02: human figure - 2 - one kneeling with palm branch and the other seated on a rug

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

B03: animal - mammal - lion - passant

Scene Description: the arch under which the lion resides has three arch-heads

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

B04: human figure - female - holding her breasts?

Scene Description: seen here to the right of the lion -- St. Agueda? Or is she a dancer? [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

B04: human figure - female - holding her breasts? - detail

Scene Description: the arms have been broken off, but there appear to be fingers around the breasts -- notice the beautiful floral motif in the left sapndrel

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

B05: human figure - male - bearded - standing

Scene Description: the carved beard is clearly discernible; was he darrying/holding something?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

B06: human figure - crowned - standing - orant pose

Scene Description: seen here in the left arch

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

B07: human figure - male - bearded - holding book?

Scene Description: is he crowned? what is the object held in both arms?

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

B07: human figure - male - bearded - holding book? - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

B08: human figure - standing - holding book

Scene Description: female? crowned? -- notice the floral spandrel and the odd triple column on the right

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

B08: human figure - standing - holding book - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

B09: animal - mammal - lion? - rampant?

Scene Description: the ressemblance to a rampant lion requires a lot of imagination, of course. What else? a rhinoceros standing on its hind legs waiting to be petted? -- the column that would have supported the arch on the right appears to have been sacrificed in favour of other decorative aims

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

B09: human figure - male - bearded - standing - holding book

Scene Description: is there a lectern on the right?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

B09: human figure - male - bearded - standing - holding book - detail

Scene Description: notice the decorative perforated disk at the upper right corner

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

B10: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - siren

Scene Description: seen here between the quadruped on the left and the dancer on the right -- notice the large damage area by the upper rim; the drilled hole for the metal anchor is clearly visible; it is likely that the expansion of metal anchor due to very cold temperature broke the stone, a common occurrence observed in old fonts

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

B11: human figure - female - dancer

Scene Description: the curved stance suggests the dancing motion and mirrors also the shape of the merman/mermaid to the left

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Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

design element - motifs - circle

Scene Description: a band of, all around

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - in a circle

Scene Description: several of them, alternating with inscribed crosses

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

design element - patterns - ribbed - convex

Scene Description: an odd convex pattern to find around the interior surface of the basin; most tend to be concave; it may be an indication of the late date of the font in the Romanesque period, as most ribbed interiors are usually dated in the 13th century or later

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

symbol - cross - Greek - pattée - in a circle

Scene Description: several of them, alternating with encircled rosettes -- one of the crosses, seen here on the left, appears to have split arm ends, almost tréflée

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

view of basin

Scene Description: the bapttismal font originally from Albacastro

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin

Scene Description: the bapttismal font originally from Albacastro

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin

Scene Description: the bapttismal font originally from Albacastro

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin

Scene Description: the bapttismal font originally from Albacastro

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin

Scene Description: the bapttismal font originally from Albacastro -- notice the large damage at the upper rim caused by a metal anchoring from an old cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: showing the centre darin hole

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of basin - upper view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of church exterior - south façade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol, Albacastro

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol, Albacastro

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol, Albacastro

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of church interior - chancel arch and east end

Scene Description: Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol, Albacastro

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of church interior - looking east

Scene Description: Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol, Albacastro

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 5 June 1999 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: inside the Iglesia de San Esteban, now Museo del Retablo

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Sánchez, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2015 by Juan Sánchez

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Rosi Cuevas and Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 17 October 2015]

view of font in context

Scene Description: the bapttismal font originally from Albacastro, seen here now in the Iglesia de San Esteban [aka Museo del Retablo], in Burgos capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the bapttismal font originally from Albacastro, seen here now in the Iglesia de San Esteban [aka Museo del Retablo], in Burgos capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the bapttismal font originally from Albacastro, seen here now in the Iglesia de San Esteban [aka Museo del Retablo], in Burgos capital

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Lozano Huerta, 2022

Image Source: digital photograph December 2022 by Pedro Lozano Huerta

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 22 December 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02372BUR
Museum and Inventory Number: Mueseo del Retablo (San Esteban), Burgos
Church/Chapel: Originally from the Iglesia de San Pedro Apóstol, Albacastro [now in the Iglesia de San Esteban [aka Museo del Retablo], in Burgos capital
Church Patron Saints: St. Peter
Church Location: [NB: address & coordinates given for the original church] Poblado Albacastro, 18, 34492 Albacastro, Burgos, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Burgos, Castilla y León
Directions to Site: Albacastro is located off local road BU-V-6214, in the municipality and 3-4 km E of Rebolledo de la Torre, 28 km NW of Villadiego. The Museo/Iglesia de San Esteban is located on Calle de San Esteban, to the NW of the Cathedral, in Burgos capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos
Historical Region: Comarca de Páramos / Alfoz de Amaya
Font Location in Church: In the Museo del Retablo [previously at the Sagrada Familia church; originally at the Iglesia de San Pedro Apostol, Albacastro]
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: somewhat similar to the font at nearby Valtierra de Albacastro, and perhaps by the same carver [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the staff at the Museo del Retablo, Burgos, Spain, for their help in documenting these fonts. We are also grateful to Juan Sánchez and to Pedro Lozano Huerta for their his additonal photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: the church of S. Pedro in Albacastro was disused for a long time; renovated in 2009 -- The former iglesia de San Esteban in Burgos has been renamed Museo del Retablo and is used as a museum of religious art for the city of Burgos
The entry for this village in Emiliano Nebreda Perdiguero [www.archiburgos.es/wp-content/uploads/amo-a-mi-pueblo.pdf] [accessed 1 February 2021] notes: "La pila bautismal románica, de gran interés, con decoración de los Reyes Magos, está ahora en la parroquia de la Sagrada Familia de Burgos". [NB: later moved to the Museo del Retablo, Burgos -- cf. infra]. Described in Bilbao (1996). Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- ). One of several fonts, this one originally from the Iglesia de San Pedro Apostol in Albacastro, now kept at the Museo del Retablo in the Iglesia de San Esteban, in the city of Burgos. The bucket-shaped basin has an upper band of circles just below the upper rim, followed down by a second band, this one with crosses and floral motifs; below, nine irregular arches, some have framed lower ends, each arch containing a scene or figure: six human figures in different positions, a female dancer, a siren or harpy, a lion passant, a lion next to a man that holds a cock or hen. The arcade in which these scenes, figures, etc., reside is a very flexible affair; where often a triple arcade is reserved as central focus for a particular meaningful scene, here it is occupied by a passant lion; the columns are equally malleable: non existent in the merman/mermaid and dancer grouping, almost vanished to the left of it, triplicated still farther to the left, between the two book-carrying figures, etc.; some of the arches have parallel arch-heads at the bottom, creating thus a full frame for the figures included, as is the case in the orant figure, and those on the left and right of it. The Enciclopedia… (Ibid.) notes the similarity of this font with the one at nearby Valtierra de Albacastro, and adscribes it to the same carver; it also points out similarities with the fonts at Valcobero, Renedo de Valdavia, Moarves de Ojeda. There is no cover present but there is evidence of metal staples from the old cover in the rim; one side badly damaged where the metal staple split the stone.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.681736, -4.189878
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 40′ 54.25″ N, 4° 11′ 23.56″ W
UTM: 30T 402515 4726159

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: bucket-shape
Drainage Notes: no lining
Rim Thickness: 16-17 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 72 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 94-95 cm* / 105 cm** / 105 cm***
Basin Depth: 45 cm
Basin Total Height: 77 cm* / 85.5 cm***
Font Height (less Plinth): 77 cm* / 85.5 cm***
Notes on Measurements: * BSI on-site / ** Bilbao (1996) / *** Enciclopedia del románico en Castilla y León (2002- )

LID INFORMATION

Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

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-