Coimbra No. 1 / Conimbriga

Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

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Results: 22 records

New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - in the Jordan - John the Baptist holding water container - angel holding clothes

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

Old Testament - Story of Moses - Exodus - crossing of the Red Sea

animal - bird - eating corn - drinking from a fountain

Scene Description: a very ornate arrangement involving two pheasants and two other birds, a central fountain and four ears of corn; the tails of the pheasants are connected to flowers issuing from the fountain; the two upper birds pick at the corn, but the lower birds do not, as their beaks hold a garland...

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Manuelvbotelho, 2000

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2000 by Manuelvbotelho [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diogo_Pires_o_Moço_Pia_Batismal_3_IMG_0489.JPG] [accessed 24 March 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0

animal - fabulous animal or monster

Scene Description: lined up, face-down, all around the top of the lower base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

animal - mammal - lion - couchant

Scene Description: four of them; all damaged

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

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coat of arms - See of Coimbra

Scene Description: the arms appear in different forms on the left and right sides of the Baptism of Christ scene

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

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design element - architectural - buttress - 8

Scene Description: at the angles of the basin; very ornate, covered in foliage

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: lining the splaying area where the fabulous beasts lurk

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: along the top and bottom of the basin panels

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Manuelvbotelho, 2000

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2000 by Manuelvbotelho [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diogo_Pires_o_Moço_Pia_Batismal_3_IMG_0489.JPG] [accessed 24 March 2015]

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design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: a variety of floral and foliage arrangements in the panels around the stem, separated by buttresses like the ones on the basin

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: the vine runs along very close to the upper rim, hidden at the corners but visible at the sides

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: all around the edge of the lower base

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

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design element - patterns - crenellated

Scene Description: above the basin panels

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Manuelvbotelho, 2000

Image Source: digital photograph taken 1 January 2000 by Manuelvbotelho [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diogo_Pires_o_Moço_Pia_Batismal_3_IMG_0489.JPG] [accessed 24 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - cloister

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © syvwlch, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2007 by syvwlch [www.flickr.com/photos/27164521@N00/768038631] [accessed 24 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © syvwlch, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 May 2007 by syvwlch [www.flickr.com/photos/27164521@N00/768902260] [accessed 24 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - east view - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Karine et Cyril, 2005

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 August 2005 by Karine et Cyril [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karinecyril_coimbra_cathedrale_1.jpg] [accessed 24 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - north portal

Scene Description: Source caption: ""Porta especiosa" da Sé (1530), portal renascentista por João de Ruão"

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Manuel Alende Maceira, 2007

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 November 2007 by Manuel Alende Maceira [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SeVelha-PortaEspeciosa1.jpg] [accessed 24 March 2015]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: 12thC portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2010

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 27 November 2010 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_Histórica_de_Coimbra._Portada.jpg] [accessed 24 March 2015)

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0

view of church exterior - west portal

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lola Garrido, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 25 April 2019 by Lola Garrido

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 May 2024)

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © michell zappa, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 December 2008 by michell zappa [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CoimbraCathedral-Nave.jpg] [accessed 24 March 2015]

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view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 March 2015 by Joost Limburg

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lola Garrido, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph 25 April 2019 by Lola Garrido

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 18 May 2024)

INFORMATION

FontID: 02721COI
Church/Chapel: Sé Velha [Old Cathedral] [originally from the Igreja de São João de Almedina]
Church Location: Largo da Sé Velha, 3000-383 Coimbra, Portugal -- Tel.: +351 239 825 273
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Beira Litoral, Distrito de Coimbra
Directions to Site: Located off the N17, on the E bank of the Mondego river, about 120 km S of Porto, 200 km N of Lisbon
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese de Coimbra
Historical Region: Beira Litoral
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the transept
Date: ca. 1520-1540?
Century and Period: 16th century(early), Late Gothic? / Manueline?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Diogo Pires-o-Moço
Cognate Fonts: Another font by the same master at Leça do Balio dated 1513
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg, of www.romanicoportugal.org, and to Lola Garrido for their photographs of this font, and to Mikel Unanue for his help in documenting it.
Church Notes: old cathedral started 1140 to replace earlier church
Noted and illustrated in Brilho do norte (1997). Octagonal font of the "Manuelino" period with overly ornate style; the sides of the basin contain one scene of the Baptism of Christ and another of Moses crossing the waters; the spreading ornamentation contains much vegetal motif, as well as the grotesque, alternating with two angels "que emergem de insólitas cornucópias"[=which emerge from unusual cornucopia] and episcopal insignia; the angels themselves are weird figures looking somewhat like woodwoses; the base is covered with deformed dog-like creatures involved in thick foliage; at the lower base, four couchant lions.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 40.208868, -8.427152
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 40° 12′ 31.93″ N, 8° 25′ 37.75″ W
UTM: 29T 548749 4451097

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Brilho do norte: escultura e escultores do norte da Europa em Portugal: época manuelina, Lisboa: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações des Descobrimentos Portugueses, 1997