Ars / Ars-sur-le-Ne / Ars-sur-le-Né / Ars-en-Ne
Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 11 October 2017)
Results: 33 records
B01: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - angels holding mandorla
Scene Description: on the north side of the basin; very damaged; only one angel visible and the whole right side destroyed
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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B02: animal - bird - eagle
Scene Description: a large eagle, the open wings and the legs being held by two humans -- on the west side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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B02: cleric - 2
Scene Description: on the west side; kneeling by the sides of a large eagle with spread wings; both figures were rich chasubles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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B03: animal - mammal - lion - with human - naked woman and quadruped with human head
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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B03: human figure - male - couchant pose
Scene Description: on the south side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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B04: animal - bird - eagle - with prey - 2
Scene Description: the east side of the basin has two levels: the upper level has an owl with an eagle on either side; at the extreme ends goat or ram heads have human legs dangling from their mouths; the lower level has fabulous animals (winged sirens, dragons)
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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B04: animal - bird - owl - with prey
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin, between two eagles
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - chimera
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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B04: animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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B04: animal - mammal - head - with prey - human prey - 2
Scene Description: on the east side of the basin; human legs dangling from their mouths
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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BF01: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul?
Scene Description: possible identification; at the northeast angle of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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BF02: Apostle or saint - St. Malo?
Scene Description: tentative identification
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Région Poitou-Charentes, Inventaire du patrimoine culturel, 2015
Image Source: image IVR54_20121601686NUCA , Christine Sarrazin, in Région Poitou-Charentes, Inventaire du patrimoine culturel
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BF03: cleric - priest - giving sign of benediction
Scene Description: at the southwest angle of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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BF04: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 2 keys and book
Scene Description: at the southeast angle of the basin; although damaged, the two keys symbol has survived
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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design element - motifs - interlace
Scene Description: all around the upper sides of the basin; some of it damaged, missing...
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: below the interlace
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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view of basin - east side - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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view of basin - east side - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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view of basin - south side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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view of basin - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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view of basin - southeast side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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view of basin - southwest side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
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view of basin - west side - detail
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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view of basin - west side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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view of basin - west side - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Michel Claveyrolas, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 23 June 2015 taken by Michel Aveyrolas
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view of church - plan
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Inventaire général, ADAGP, 2011
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © RBA, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 August 2004 ny RBA [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Maclou_d'Ars.JPG] [accessed 23 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - portal
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view of church exterior - southwest view
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view of church exterior - west portal
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view of church exterior - west tower
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view of font
Scene Description: showing the south side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crozet, 1971
Image Source: Crozet (1971: pl. XLV-B)
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view of stoup
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INFORMATION
FontID: 02753ARS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Maclou d'Ars
Church Patron Saints: St. Malo (Machutus, Maclou)
Church Location: 16130 Ars, Charente, France
Country Name: France
Location: Charente, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Directions to Site: Located 7 km SW of Cognac. Take the D731 S of Cognac for about 5 kms; at Montperron make a right onto the D148, and follow it past Gimeux for about one km to Ars, right on the banks of the Né river/canal.
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Belley-Ars
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Century and Period: 12th century (mid) (?) [restored], Romanesque [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Michel Aveyrolas for sharing his photographs of this font with BSI
Church Notes: The original church of Saint-Maclou (a.k.a. Malo, Machutus) can be dated to the mid-12th century, probably the same date as the font itself. The church is listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00104232 and IA00059097]
Font Notes:
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Mentioned in passing in Bourricaud (1880). Crozet (1962) and (1971) describes and illustrates this unmounted square font: only three faces of the basin retain their ornamentation: the east side has a bearded apostle at each corner; Crozet identifies the one on the left as Peter and suggests Paul for the one on the right; between them, on the side of the basin, two registers: on the upper one an owl and two eagles can be seen framed on the sides by two horse-like heads facing front; the lower register creatures are identified by Crozet as harpies, chimeras and a human figure lying down and holding its head in its hands; the south side is again framed by two figures at the arrises, Peter on the right one and an ecclesiastic on the left (badly mutilated); between them a lion with a flowery tail holds a naked woman, wrapped in a serpent, in its legs; one of the lion's legs rests on a human head; above this leg is perched a little quadruped with a grimacing human face. Crozet reports the west side as quite close to the wall and therefore difficult to read: he sees a large eagle with spread wings, very Egyptian-like; a kneeling man on each side hold its leg and wings with either hand. The north side is badly damaged but Crozet reports an angel-held mandorla with Christ in Majesty. All around the basin a rope motif under a palmette-decorated rim. The well of the basin is octagonal (Crozet, 1962). Lacoste's (1992) and (1998) identification of the main elements is basically the same as Crozet, but enriched with biblical references and liaisons. The entry in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) [by Charles Daras?] simply gives the date: late-12th century. It is Listed and illustrated in the Inventaire général, ADAGP, data accessible via the Palissy/Memoire database [référence IM16002741] [www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/memoire_fr]; it dates the font to the 12th century, and reports traces of paint on the surface; font restored in 1974. The Inventaire du patrimoine de Poitou-Charentes [https://gertrude-diffusion.poitou-charentes.fr/gertrude-diffusion/dossier/eglise-paroissiale-saint-maclou/8eeeb40f-5cf4-49a6-9083-6a202a917e0f] [accessed 23 November 2015] describes and illustrates the font: "Dans la nef se trouvent des fonts baptismaux datés probablement du douzième siècle et restaurés en 1974. Le bloc carré (dimensions totales : 1,27m de côté pour 83 cm de hauteur) est percé d'une cavité circulaire (d'un diamètre de 89 cm et d'une profondeur de 52 cm) munie d'une bonde et d'une feuillure octogonale pour le couvercle. Les quatre faces sont sculptées. Un personnage est figuré à chaque angle, deux ne sont pas identifiables. Les têtes des figures d'angle sont brisées ; la partie supérieure de la face nord a été refaite ; nombreuses épaufrures. Sur la face ouest : aigle aux ailes déployées tenues par deux hommes agenouillés. Sur la face sud : lion écrasant de ses pattes deux personnages nus, dont un homme couché entravé par un serpent ; oiseau bicéphale (aigle ?) ; lionceau. Sur la face est. Registre supérieur : chouette encadrée de deux aigles ; têtes de bouc avalant les jambes d'un homme. Registre inférieur : monstres (sirène-oiseau ; dragon). Sur la face nord : Christ dans une mandorle ; ange."
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.6427, -0.381798
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 38′ 33.72″ N, 0° 22′ 54.47″ W
UTM: 30T 704033 5057685
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: square (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round [with octagonal fringe]
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Diameter (inside rim): 89 cm**
Basin Depth: 52 cm**
Basin Total Height: 90 cm* / 83 cm**
Font Height (less Plinth): 90 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 116 x 116 cm* / 127 x 127 cm**
Notes on Measurements: * Crozet (1962) / ** Palissy [ref.: IM16002741]: "h = 83 ; la = 127 ; pr = 127 (dimensions totales) ; cavité : h = 52, d = 89"]
REFERENCES
Bulletin Monumental, 1962
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Audiat, Louis, Épigraphie santonne et aunisienne, Paris et Niort: [s.n.], 1871
Bourricaud, A. [Antoine], "Fonts baptismaux de St-Eutrope de Saintes", 2e série, tome 1 (tome V de la collection), Recueil de la Commission des arts & monuments historiques de la Charente-Inférieure et Société d'archéologie de Saintes, 1880-1881, pp. 204-208; p. 204
Crozet, René, L'art roman en Saintonge, Paris: A. & J. Picard, 1971
Eygun, François, Saintonge romane, La Pierre-qui-vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1970
George, Jean, Églises de France: Charente, Paris: [s.n.], 1932
Index of Medieval Art, The Index of Medieval Art, Index of Christian Art, Princeton, [s.d.]. URL: https://theindex.princeton.edu/.
Lacoste, Jacques, "Les fonts baptismaux d'Ars-sur-le-Né: de la création à la restauration", Travaux d'histoire de l'art offerts à Marcel Durliat pour son 75e anniversaire, Toulouse: Atelier d'histoire de l'art méridional, 1992
Lacoste, Jacques, Sculpture romane en Saintonge, La : l'imaginaire et la foi, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire: Christian Pirot, 1998