Barcelona No. 1

Results: 10 records

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design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 29, 2005

design element - motifs - moulding

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 29, 2005

design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 29, 2005

design element - patterns - ribbed - diagonal

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 29, 2005

view of church exterior - west façade

Scene Description: seen here before the 2007 restoration

Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 January 2003 by Montrealais [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sta-eulalia.jpg] [accessed 2 June 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 December 2008 by Jorge Lascar [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_of_Santa_Eulalia_Barcelona.JPG] [accessed 2 June 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - plan

Image Source: digital image [of source unknown] by Papix 27 September 2007 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Santaeulaliabarcelona224.jpg] [accessed 2 June 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 29, 2005

view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: in 1920

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph taken by Josep Salvany i Blanch in 1920 " Placa de vidre estereoscòpica, 6x13 cm. Fons Salvany SaP_529_12" [http://mdc.cbuc.cat/cdm/singleitem/collection/bcsalvany/id/5844/rec/31] [accessed 2 June 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0 "Còpia permesa amb finalitat d'estudi o recerca, citant la font 'Biblioteca de Catalunya'"

view of font in context

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 29, 2005

INFORMATION

FontID: 02593BAR

Museum and Inventory Number: Museu de la Catedral?

Church/Chapel: Catedral de la Santa Cruz y Santa Eulalia / Catedral de Santa Creu i Santa Eulàllia [aka La Seu]

Church Patron Saints: The Holy Cross & St. Eulalia of Merida

Church Location: Pla de la Seu Barcelona, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Barcelona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: In the Pla de la Seu, in the old part of the city

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesis de Barcelona

Font Location in Church: In the baptistery chapel, the first to the left of the main entrance?

Date: 1433

Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Onofre Julià (aka Giulia)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Magnificently elegant font carved from a single block of light Carrara marble by the Florentine master Onofre Julià [spelling?] in 1433. It is chalice-shaped with arrises that start at the upper rim and continue in helicoidal manner all the way to the bottom of the base. Noted in Liaño Martínez (1983). [NB: Mestre i Godes (1999: 126) describes a marble immersion font now in the Museu de la Catedral probably referring to the older quatrefoil font located there].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.383889, 2.176389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 23′ 2″ N, 2° 10′ 35″ E

UTM: 31T 431136 4581701

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Carrara)

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: chalice-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [NB: the upper rim surface has traces of earlier staples of the original cover]

REFERENCES

Ainaud, J., Catálogo monumental de España: la Ciudad de Barcelona, 1947

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Lallov, William J., "The Font and the Baptistry", 3, Liturgical Arts, 1934, pp. 80-96; r["References"]

Liaño Martínez, Emma, Catedral de Barcelona, Madrid: Editorial Everest, 1983

Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català : de Girona a Barcelona, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999