Leca do Balio / Leça do Balio
Results: 22 records
design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2
view of basin - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
design element - motifs - fruit - pommegranate
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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inscription - partial
Scene Description: this section records the name of the sponsor, Frei João Coelho
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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design element - motifs - floral - rosette
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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symbol - thistle
Scene Description: several of them on the underbowl sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
symbol - cross - Greek - Maltese - Knights Hospitaller cross
Scene Description: the Knights Hospitaller had the monastery here for centuries since they received in the 12thC
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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angel - demi-figure - holding shield - coat of arms - unidentified
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Alegna13, 2005
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 January 2005 by Alegna13 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capiteis_portal_principal.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 April 2017 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_de_Leça_do_Balio_(2).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sara silva, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 September 2011 by Sara silva [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_do_Balio,_porta_lateral.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior - south view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Moutinho, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 August 2010 by José Moutinho [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_(4893062971).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior in context - north view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 September 2009 by Pedro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_old_monastery_(5347544574).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carlos Cunha, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 April 2010 by [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_de_Leça_do_Bailio_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © lilivanili, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2012 by lilivanili [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leça_Monastery_(8046855844).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-2.0
view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joseolgon, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 April 2017 by Joseolgon [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mosteiro_de_Leça_do_Balio_(1).jpg] [accessed 5 September 2018]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
design element - motifs - torus-scotia-torus
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: all around, below the row of ball motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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design element - motifs - ball
Scene Description: a row of, all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: large leaves cover some of the animal bodies
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
animal - fabulous animal or monster - unidentified - 8
Scene Description: probably dragons, but part of their bodies are coovered with large leaves
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Joost Limburg, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2018 by Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02722LEC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1513
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(early), Late Gothic? / Manueline?
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Diogo Pires-o-Moço
Cognate Fonts: See also the font at Coimbra (Sé Velha) by the same master
Church / Chapel Name: Igreja de Santa Maria de Leça do Bailio / Igreja de Leça de Balio
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Notes: original church said to have been a small 10thC monastery dedicated to Our Saviour , of which nothing remains; documented by the early-11thC; given to the Hospitallers in the 12thC; re-built and dedicated to St Mary in 1180; re-built 1330s; restored 1930s; again 1990s
Church Address: R. de Santos Lessa, 4465-332 Leça do Balio, Portugal -- Tel.: +351 22 901 0153
Site Location: Porto, Norte, Portugal, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (NE) of the A4-N13 junction, just N of Porto airport, in the municipality of Matosinhos and N of it
Font Notes:
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The present font here is noted in the SIPA entry [IPA.00004968] [www.monumentos.gov.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=4968] [accessed 5 September 2018]: "Pia baptismal em pedra de Ançã, renascentista, com alguns elementos manuelinos [...] obra da renascença, que segundo Lurdes Craveiro é um dos mais importantes trabalhos do escultor coimbrão Diogo Pires, o Moço [...] inscrições epigrafadas [...] na pia baptismal [...] 1513 - data da pia baptismal, tendo-a mandado executar Frei João Coelho." The octagonal pedestal font by Diogo Pires (the younger) is, like his other font now in the Old Cathedral at Coimbra, an example of the "Manuelino" period of Portuguese art. The octagonal basin is saturated with ornamentation: rosettes under the rim; band of ornamentation with arcade ending in pommegranates at bottom; it is overimposed at the corners by laces and a large shield held by an angel of spread wings; on the shield face, a rampant lion; large artichoke plants taper off under the basin towards the base. The upper part of the base is bulbous and resembles a cloth held at the top by a studded metal brace, a cloth which covers bulging objects and beings hidden within and pushing to break out; and break out they do at the very bottom of the base where their monstrous heads and claws break through the fabric. (Brilho do norte, 1997)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Joost Limburg [www.romanicoportugal.org] for his photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 29T 531554 4562138
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.21, -8.623611
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 12′ 36″ N, 8° 37′ 25″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, [pedra de Ançã]
Font Shape: octagonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Portuguese
Inscription Location: on some of the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: "[...] / d[...]o frei j[oa]o coelho / [...]"
Inscription Notes: partial transcription [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: [cf. Fonrs and ImagesArea]
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood?
Apparatus: no
Notes: octagonal, flat and plain; modern
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, p. 132, 133 and ill. on p. 134