Biescas de Bardaji / Biescas de Bardají / Biescas de Bardaixi / Biescas de Bardaixí
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BBU01: design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: a row of, within a scotia
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BBU02: design element - motifs - scotia
Scene Description: with a row of ball motif within
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LB01: design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: a row at each end of the stem of the base
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LB02: design element - patterns - torsade
Scene Description: on the stem of the base
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2005
Image Source: Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail 2/5/2003)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02689BIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: Very similar basin to the ones at Esplugas de Merli and Aguascaldas, in the same region
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de San Saturnino
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, opposite the entrance
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Saturninus
Church Address: C. Única, 1D, 22451 Biescas, Huesca, Spain
Site Location: Huesca, Aragón, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located near Campo, just E of the N-260 (at Campo take the local road to the right; follow for about 2 km, then the left turn and follow for another 2 km to Biescas de B.)
Font Notes:
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Described in Iglesias Costa (1985, vol. I/1: 143: the baptismal font [...] has a band of ball motifs; below it, ribs; 'solomonic' base [i.e., bulbous column] finished with the same ball motif [our translation]. The basin is of a type common in this area [cf. Index entries for Espluga de Merli and Aguascaldas, for instance]: the upper side is decorated with a row of ball motif, often within the cavity of a scotia; the rest of the basin outer surface is covered in a ribbed pattern simulating elongated round arches. This font has a base tha consists of torsade column with a row of ball motif at either end. [We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his image of this font]
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 287803 4699399
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.4179, 0.420917
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 25′ 4.44″ N, 0° 25′ 15.3″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Iglesias Costa, Manuel, Arquitectura románica, siglos X-XI, XII, XIII, Barcelona: Akribos, 1985, vol.I/1, p. 143