Arties No. 2
Image copyright © Rosa Zazo, 2022
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue
Results: 15 records
design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: a number of them to the right and left of, and above, the cross
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Javier Torrens Alzu, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2003 by Javier Torrens Alzu for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Permission received
human figure - orant?
Scene Description: with open arms, to the right of the cross (touching it)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 May 2015)
symbol - cross - Latin
Scene Description: to the left of the figure
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 May 2015)
view of church exterior - apse - window - detail
Scene Description: possible Agnus Dei and other motifs decorate the lintel of the central window, main apse
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2012 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_Maria_d’Arties_(7997057044).jpg] [accessed
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - north portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2012 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_Maria_d’Arties_(7997028797).jpg] [accessed
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Antonio Gil Martínez, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 August 2012 by José Antonio Gil Martínez [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Iglesia_de_Santa_Maria_d’Arties_(7997065158).jpg] [accessed
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jordiferrer, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2011 by Jordiferrer [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_d'Arties_-_sud_1.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jordiferrer, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 July 2011 by Jordiferrer [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interior_of_Santa_Maria_d'Arties_0.JPG] [accessed 7 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arties,_Església_de_Santa_Maria-PM_31660.jpg] [accessed 7 June 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Javier Torrens Alzu, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2003 by Javier Torrens Alzu for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Permission received
view of font and cover
Scene Description: note the font removed from the corner in May 2015: detached from its previous position
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 May 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 20 May 2015)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Zazo, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 4 August 2022 by Rosa Zazo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Zazo, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 4 August 2022 by Rosa Zazo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rosa Zazo, 2022
Image Source: digital photograph 4 August 2022 by Rosa Zazo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue
view of font in context
Scene Description: note the font cemented to the corner in 2003
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Javier Torrens Alzu, 2003
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 September 2003 by Javier Torrens Alzu for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Permission received
INFORMATION
FontID: 02609ART
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Església de Santa Maria d'Arties
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Plaça Sapujo; Ag. Arties, 1, 25599 Arties, Lérida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the C1412, in the municipality of Naut Aran, 5-6 km E of Viella/Vielha
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the entranceway
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: oil font / pica d'oli
Cognate Fonts: Other such in the valleys of the former diocese of Comminges
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Javier Torrens Alzu, Txaro Irigoyen and Rosa Zazo for their photographs of this object
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ), as 'perhaps a font' ["potser una pica"] made of granite and shaped like a bath-tub, rectangular at the top and narrowing in like a normal bath tub; the inside well is also rectangular, with rounded corners; the front side has a number of ball motifs (nine? - one broken off), a Latin cross and a human figure with open arms, one of which appears to touch a side of the cross [NB: the figure is actually touching or holding the cross with his right hand]. As with the other tub-fonts of the area, the above source is reluctant to assign a date earlier than the 12th-13th century. Mestre i Godes and Adell (1999) describe it as 'a true bath tub' [="una veritable banyera"]. [cf. Index entries for Cap d'Aran, etc. for this type of "oil-font"]. Noted in Amiell (2007).
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.69786, 0.870661
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 41′ 52″ N, 0° 52′ 14.38″ E
UTM: 31T 325611 4729778
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: rectangular (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: rectangular
Basin Exterior Shape: rectangular
Diameter (inside rim): 33 x 50 cm
Basin Depth: 42 cm
Basin Total Height: 45 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 45 cm
Square Base Dimensions: [??] x 42 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 114 x 72 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , v. XIII: 398)
LID INFORMATION
Date: Unknown
Material: wood
REFERENCES
Amiell, Josep M., "Piques baptismal de la Val d'Aran", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 32-35; p. 32
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-
Mestre i Godes, Jesús, Viatge al romànic català: les valls pirenenques, Barcelona: RACC Club-Edicions 62, 1999