Alos d'Isil No. 2 / Alós d'Isil
Results: 3 records
B01: animal - mammal - lion - passant
Scene Description: on the larger side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Centre d'Art Romànic Català, 2010
Image Source: photograph in the Centre d'Art Romànic Català
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Centre d'Art Romànic Català, 2010
Image Source: photograph in the Centre d'Art Romànic Català
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02601ALO
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 10th - 11th century, Early Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font / pica d'oli
Cognate Fonts: Several in the Val d'Aran, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Església de Sant Lliser
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Licerio (?)
Church Address: Alós, Plaça Major, 1, 25586 Alós d'Isil, Lleida, Spain
Site Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Alós d'Isil is off the C-147 in the Aneu area of the Pallars Sobirà, Lerida.
Font Notes:
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Referred to as an 'oil font' with lion motif in Celina Llarás Usón's introductory essay to the monumental sculpture in the Pallars region in Catalunya romànica (1984- ). Described in Mestre i Godes (1999) as one of two "oil fonts" in the Sant Lliser parish church of Alos d'Isil, it is decorated with lion-like figures. Described in Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005), who note similarities with the oil fonts at Sant Just i Sant Pastor de Son, Sant Serni d'Arreu and Sant Mart de Boren. This source further notes that it was unearthed in 1989 from the churchyard; the font has two inner wells and may well be the work of a local workshop, towards the late 12th or early 13th century.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 344375 4729374
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.7011, 1.0999
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 42′ 3.96″ N, 1° 5′ 59.64″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Drainage Notes: no lining
Trapezoidal Basin: 135 x 76 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005)]
REFERENCES
- Cabestany i Fort, Joan-F., El romànic de la vall d'Àneu, Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2005, p. 48-49 and fig. 7
- Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. XV: 99
- Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999, p. 99