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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

B02: New Testament - public life of Christ - temptation of Christ - in the wilderness

Scene Description: seen here in the central arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

B03: New Testament - public life of Christ - miracles of Christ - story of Lazarus - resurrection of Lazarus

Scene Description: seen only partially here in the right arch

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

B04: New Testament - public life of Christ - Transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B05: New Testament - public life of Christ - Christ with Mary Magdalene

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B06: New Testament - Passion of Christ - entry into Jerusalem

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B07: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Last Supper

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B08: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Christ at Getsemane

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

animal - mammal - quadruped

Scene Description: a number of them, around the foot of the font

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 10 October 2012 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sasamón20121006174619SAM_1250.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2016]

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design element - architectural - arcade

Scene Description: rounded flattened arch-heads on very thin colonnettes

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: together with inscribed scrolls, below the upper rim

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - moulding

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design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

head

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade

inscription

Scene Description: black lettering on scrolls below the upper rim

view of church exterior - cloister

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2012 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ClaustrpDeSasamón.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2016]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

view of church exterior - south portal - tympanum

Scene Description: Source caption: "La portada muestra en el tímpano a Cristo entronizado dictando su palabra a los 4 Evangelistas, sentados a su alrededor en pupitres. Rodean la imagen del Salvador los 4 tetramorfos nombrados en el Apocalipsis que están al lado del trono del Juez supremo: el león, el toro, el águila y la figura humana. Por debajo, en el dintel que sostiene el tímpano se representa a los doce Apóstoles en conversación por parejas. Todo ello enmarcado por tres arquivoltas apuntadas recargadas de figuras de ángeles y reyes músicos que forman una verdadera orquesta celestial."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2011 by Carlospalacios [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sasamón_(BURGOS)_Iglesia_de_Santa_María_la_Real._18.JPG] [accessed 29 October 2016]

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view of church exterior - southeast view - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the main square in Sasamón, with the church dominating the view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2012 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SasamónPlazaDeSasamón.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2016]

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view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: a detail of the interior at the crossing (which now serves as nave)

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

view of church interior - mosaic

Scene Description: a Roman mosaic attests to the age of the original building beneath the present cathedral -- Source caption: "Restos de mosaicos romanos que recuerdan la antigüedad de Sasamón cuando en el siglo I a.C. estableció en ella una legión para la lucha contra los pueblos cántabros."

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 July 2011 by Carlospalacios [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_María_la_Real._Sasamón_(BURGOS)._172.JPG] [accessed 29 October 2016]

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view of church interior - transept

Scene Description: now serving as nave, with a north-south orientation -- Source caption: "Vista del largo crucero construido en dirección Norte – Sur, que al quedar arruinada mayor parte de las naves de la iglesia se ha convertido en el “nuevo templo” al cambiarse la orientación del altar mayor (en el lateral Norte) para aprovechar un mayor espacio."

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 October 2012 by Rowanwindwhistler [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sasamón20121006174619SAM_1250.jpg] [accessed 29 October 2016]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: stoup located near the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2016 by Cristina Sanchez de Gijon

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 29 October 2016)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02373SAS

Church/Chapel: Iglesia [aka Colegiata] de Santa María la Real

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Calle Arco, 1, 09123 Sasamon, Burgos, Burgos, Spain -- Tel.: +34 947 37 01 54

Country Name: Spain

Location: Burgos, Castilla y León

Directions to Site: Located at a crossroads (BU640, 641, 621...) just N of the N-120, 30-35 km W of the city of Burgos

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Burgos

Historical Region: Comarca de Odra-Pisuerga

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, chapel of San Bartolomé, in the W end

Date: ca. 1490?

Century and Period: 15th century (late?), Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Simón de Colonia's workshop?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Biblioteca "Alonso Zamora Vicente" (Cáceres, Spain) for providing Calzada Toledano's article of B.I.F.G. LXXVIII, no. 221 (2000/2)]. We are grateful to Cristina Sanchez de Gijon for her photographs of this church and font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font perhaps from the workshop of Simon of Cologne. Described in Orive Salazar (1975). Calzada Toledano (2000) studies the iconographic program of this font in the context of the influence of the 'Biblia pauperum' and he identifies the following scenes as represented around the basin sides: 1)baptism of Christ; 2)temptations of Christ; 3)resurrection of Lazarus; 4)transfiguration of Christ; 5)Mary Magdalen's repentance; 6)Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem; 7)Last Supper; 8)Christ at Gethsemane with Peter and the two sons of Zebedee. The font is described again, following Calzada Toledano's notes, in Rilova Pérez and Simón Rey (2005). On-site notes: an extremely beautiful late-Gothic font from ca. 1490 in a disastrous state of repair; the soft sandstone is very worn -as if it had been exposed to the elements for a long time- and with much damage to different parts of it [NB: some of the Burgos fonts, when moved, we were told, had been rolled on their sides from one location to another!]. It consists of a hemispherical basin mounted on a very short base, looking somewhat like two of the fonts in the Santander area [cf. Index entries for Bareyo and Santoña]. There are scrolls with inscriptions at the rim; the sides of the basin have large arches containing scenes, one of which appears to be the baptism of Christ; another Christ with Mary Magdalene; the base is polygonal and appears to be ornamented with animals [NB: we were not permitted proper access to the font during our visit, nor were we allowed to photograph it in detail or take measurements; furthermore, the custodians were not willing to give us another date for a proper study of this font -- this has been a common problem in accessing fonts in the archdiocese of Burgos. The liturgical patrimony of the province has been decimated by theft and mismanagement. Although some sources at the archbishopric have blamed the bulk of the damage on outsiders (e.g.: the notorious "Eric, the Belgian"), the reality appears to be that much of the theft and mismanagement is a local problem which has involved some of the priests and municipal authorities themselves, as well as other locals, as recent cases made well-known by the press have demonstrated. In a recent case, September 2003, a local of Aranda de Duero was caught red-handed by the Guardia Civil having stolen the holy-water stoup from the Ermita de Ucero, near Burgo de Osma, in nearby Soria]. [cf. Index entry for Sasamón No. 2 for a Romanesque baptismal font kept in this same location]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.418056, -4.041667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 25′ 5″ N, 4° 2′ 30″ W

UTM: 30T 414298 4696720

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 175 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 125 cm

Notes on Measurements: Source: Orive Salazar (1975: 61) in Calzada Toledano (2000: [299]. Also in Rilova Pérez (2005) [perhaps after Calzada Toledano] [NB: we were not allowed to take measurements of this font in our visit to this temple]

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: Most of the surface of the font is very eroded

Inscription Location: black lettering on scrolls, on the basin sides, below the rim

Inscription Text: "[...] JORDAN [...]"

Inscription Source: Calzada Toledano (2000: 300)

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern

REFERENCES

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

Calzada Toledano, Juan José, "La Biblia pauperum en la pila bautismal de Sasamón", Año 78, n. 221 (2o semestre 2000), Boletín de la Institución Fernán González, 2000, pp. 299-316; r["References"]

Orive Salazar, Alejandro, Sasamón, ciudad milenaria y artística, 1975

Rilova Pérez, Isaac, Sasamón: historia y guía artística, Burgos: Dosoles, 2005