Salzburg
Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2017
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animal - mammal - lion - couchant - 4
Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanischer Bronzelöwe am Taufbecken des Doms in Salzburg (Österreich), um 1180."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburg_Dom_Taufbecken_002.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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cleric - bishop - with book and staff
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken des Doms in Salzburg (Österreich), romanische Bronzelöwen um 1180, Becken 1321 aus Zinn gegossen, mit Inschrift am oberen Rand, unter Arkaden Bischöfe und Heilige der Erzdiözese Salzburg."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburg_Dom_Taufbecken_011.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digigtal photograph taken 16 February 2010 by Colin Smith for BSI
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inscription
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digigtal photograph taken 16 February 2010 by Colin Smith for BSI
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inscription
Scene Description: on each of the arches of the basin side, identifying the bishps in them
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2010
Image Source: detail of a digigtal photograph taken 16 February 2010 by Colin Smith for BSI
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanischer Bronzelöwe am Taufbecken des Doms in Salzburg (Österreich), um 1180."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburg_Dom_Taufbecken_001.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanischer Bronzelöwe am Taufbecken des Doms in Salzburg (Österreich), um 1180."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburg_Dom_Taufbecken_003.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Romanischer Bronzelöwe am Taufbecken des Doms in Salzburg (Österreich), um 1180."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 July 2015 by GFreihalter [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburg_Dom_Taufbecken_998.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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view of church exterior - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andreas Praefcke, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 May 2013 by Andreas Praefcke [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburg_Dom_vom_Residenzplatz.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © LepoRello, 2410
Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 May 2010 by LepoRello [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburg_Cathedral_as_seen_from_Festungsgasse.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by Zairon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburg_Dom_St._Virgil_%26_Rupert_1.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro J Pacheco, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2014 by Pedro J. Pacheco [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburger_Dom_8.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 6 June 2015 by Zairon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburg_Dom_St._Virgil_%26_Rupert_Innen_Langhaus_West_2.jpg] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne Hinson, 2007
Image Source: photograph sent by Anne Hinson (Colin Hinson's daughter) on 24 Dec. 2007)
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: Source caption: "Taufbecken des Doms in Salzburg (Österreich), romanische Bronzelöwen um 1180, Becken 1321 aus Zinn gegossen, mit Inschrift am oberen Rand, unter Arkaden Bischöfe und Heilige der Erzdiözese Salzburg."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © GFreihalter, 2015
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Esteve García Antoñana, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 October 2017 by Esteve García Antoñana
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H. Gürtler, [n.d.]
Image Source: digital image of an undated sepia postcard, Photokarte v. H. Gürtler, Salzburg
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Religione 2.0, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 June 2005 by Religione 2.0, in Flickr [http://www.flickr.com/photos/religione20/2468352366/] [accessed 6 February 2009]
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view of font cover
Scene Description: with the Baptism of Christ scene as finial
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © H. Gürtler, [n.d.]
Image Source: edited detail of a digital image of an undated sepia postcard, Photokarte v. H. Gürtler, Salzburg
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view of font cover - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PictureObelix, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2014 by PictureObelix [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburger_Dom_IMG_5932_Taufbrunnen_Detail.JPG] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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view of font cover - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PictureObelix, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2014 by PictureObelix [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salzburger_Dom-IMG_4889.JPG] [accessed 16 December 2016]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02536SAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Dom zu Salzburg / Salzburger Dom / Dom St. Virgil und Rupert
Church Patron Saints: St. Rupert of Salzburg & St. Vergilius
Church Location: Domplatz 1a, 5020 Salzburg, Austria
Country Name: Austria
Location: Salzburg
Directions to Site: In the Domplatz [cathedral square] in Salzburg city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzdiözese Salzburg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: 1321
Century and Period: 14th century [base only] -- 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Heinrich
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne Hinson, to Colin Smith and to Esteve García Antoñana for their photographs of this font. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: original church here 774 destroyed by lightning and fire 842; re-built thereafter;
Font Notes:
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Lübke (1870) notes a Romanesque font made of metal in 1321 in this cathedral church. One of several large beautifully ornamented bronze baptismal fonts [cf. Index entries for the Hildesheim Dom and for Rostock St. Mary's in Germany]. It is mounted on four "couchant" lions which are dated to the 13th century, whereas the date for the basin itself is given as 1321 [dating in Baldass-Buchowiecki-Mrazek: "Bronzenes Taufbecken mit Lowen als Trager, diese 12. Jh., das Becken 1321." Baldass, 1974, caption for ill. 56]. The font has an inscription running under the rim; the round arches of the arcade which covers the sides of the font also bear text, probably the names of the bishop inside each arch. Mozart was baptised in this font. [NB: Drake (2003) lists this font as made of lead; it is actually mixed, as per Lutze below]. Studied and illustrated in Klaus Lutze's Das Taufbecken im Dom zu Salzburg [MGSL_133_0027-0052.pdf] [accessed 24 April 2023], who identifies the material of the basin as tin, not bronze: "Das Material des Beckens ist nicht Bronze, wie bisher in der Literatur allgemein angenommen, wohl wegen eines bräunlichen Farbüberzugs [...], sondern Zinn. Die Wahl dieses Metalls für den Guß hängt vermutlich mit dem Aufschwung der böhmischen Zinnförderung im 13. Jahrhundert und einer entsprechenden Preisentwicklung, zumal im Vergleich zum englischen Import-Zinn, zusammen". Lutze (ibid.) further notes that the sixteen figures are repeats of a single mould, and that the mitre is characteristic of the 12th-13th century model; Lutze (ibid.) transcribes the inscriptions [cf. Inscription field] and discusses the identity of the master responsible for the font.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 47.798056, 13.045833
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 47° 47′ 53″ N, 13° 2′ 45″ E
UTM: 33T 353663 5295704
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, tin (basin only -- bronze (base only)
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (includes rim): 135 cm*
Basin Total Height: 52.3 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm* (approx.)
Notes on Measurements: * Lutze [cf. FontNotes]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: The inscription, probably in Latin, runs under the rim; another, identifying the bishops in the arcade, on the arches.
Inscription Location: Under rim and on arches
Inscription Text: 1) "SVM . VAS . EX . (A)ERE . FACIAM . PECCATA . DELERE + PER . ME . FIT . SA C R I. PVRGACIO . VERA . LAVACRI. + PVRGATVR. TOTVM . QVOT . FIT . BABTISMATE . LOTVM + M(AGISTER) . HEI(N)RIC(US) . ME . FECIT .:. + ANNO . D (O M I)N I. M .C .C .C .X .X .I. +"
2) GRACIA . DIVINA . PECCATORVM . MEDICINA .+. M E . DED IT. V T . M VND A. MENS . FIAT. FONTIS . IN . VN D A. [...] LEX. VETVS . ERRAVIT . NOVA . LEX. ME . SANCTIFICAVIT .+."
3) S.RVbERTUS / S.VJRGILJVS / S.MARTINVS / .S.EBERHARDVS / S.HERTWIGVS / S.DITMARUS / S.VITALIS / S.AVGVSTJNVS / . [?] S / .S.VALENTJNVS / .S.DITMARVSMART / S.EBERHARDVS / .S.JOHANNES / .S.MAXIMILIANVS + / .S. [?] VS / S.AMANDVS
Inscription Source: Lutze [cf. FontNotes]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1959
Material: metal, bronze
Apparatus: no
Notes: by T. Schneider-Manzell
REFERENCES
Baldass, Romanische Kunst in Õsterreich, 1974
Drake, Colin Stuart, "Romanesque Fonts in Kent: the French Connections", CXXIII, 2003, Archaeologia Cantiana, 2003, pp. 333-352; p. 345
Lallov, William J., "The Font and the Baptistry", 3, Liturgical Arts, 1934, pp. 80-96; p. 89
Lübke, Wilhelm, Ecclesiastical in Gemany during the Middle Ages [tranl. by L. A. Wheatley], London: Cassell, Petter, & Galpin, 1870