Commana No. 1 / Comana / Kommana

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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Scene Description: On the ceiling of the baldaquin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

design element - architectural - arch or rib

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: at both ends of the stem

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding - parallel

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

design element - patterns - ribbed

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

inscription

Scene Description: [cf. InscriptionArea]

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of canopy, baldachin - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south porch

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2012 by B25es [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Recinto_parroquial_de_Commana_01.JPG] [accessed 27 September 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - south portal - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior - south portal - stoup

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 September 2007 by amadalvarez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commana_esglesia_6799_resize.jpg] [accessed 27 September 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: the 1742 Calvary

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - east view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of church exterior in context - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2010 by Moreau Henri [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Commana_7_L'église_Saint-Derrien_vue_du_cimetière.JPG] [accessed 27 September 2016]

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

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2012 by B25es [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Recinto_parroquial_de_Commana_03.JPG] [accessed 27 September 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Scene Description: with a stone holy-water stoup by the south entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 July 2012 by B25es [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Recinto_parroquial_de_Commana_05.JPG] [accessed 27 September 2016]

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view of font and canopy, baldachin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of font and canopy, baldachin in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Eglise Saint-Derrien [...] Baldaquin des fonts baptismaux, vue générale"

Image Source: digital image of a 1977 photograph by Paul Hemery in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W01192] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP29W01192] [accessed 29 July 2023]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and canopy, baldachin in context

Scene Description: Two fonts are shown: the photographer, "Joncour Brasparts" was actually François Joncour (1871-1946) 'bijoutier' by trade, but prolific photographer and short-story writer of Brasparts, in Bretagne [see Michel Penven et Glaoda Millour's François Joncour, son parcours en centre Finistère (Brasparts: Association « Sur les traces de François Joncour », Mairie de Brasparts, 1997)

Image Source: digital image of an undated postcard with a photograph by Joncour Brasparts, in Mémoire [AP29W05360] [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/AP29W05360] [accessed 29 July 2023]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: the two fonts are shown here, the one in the bottom-left corner only partially

Image Source: digital photograph [20202902372] 2020 by Yann Celton, in Mémoire [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/OA029_20202902372] [accessed 29 July 2023]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-NC-ND 4.0 = Licence Ouverte / CC-BY-SA-4.0

virtues and vices - cardinal virtues - Justice (Justitia)

Scene Description: On one of the baldaquin columns

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

virtues and vices - cardinal virtues - Temperance

Scene Description: On one of the baldaquin columns

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

virtues and vices - theological virtues - Charity (Caritas, Love, Agape)

Scene Description: On one of the baldaquin columns

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

virtues and vices - theological virtues - Faith (Fides)

Scene Description: On one of the baldaquin columns

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

virtues and vices - theological virtues - Hope (Spes)

Scene Description: On one of the baldaquin columns

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 25 June 2000 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 02778COM

Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Derrien de Comana

Church Location: 29450 Commana, France

Country Name: France

Location: Finistère, Bretagne

Directions to Site: Commana is 10 km E of Sizun off the D764, about 40 km S of Roscoff

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Quimper-Léon

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the N side

Date: 1656

Century and Period: 17th century, Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: baldaquin font (double font)

Cognate Fonts: the canopied font of Sizun nearby

Church Notes: 16th-17thC church listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00089888]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

The baldaquin housing this font is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM29000154]: "Église Saint-Derrien [...] Baldaquin des fonts baptismaux [...] 1682 [...] Bois [...] H = 900 (hauteur approximative) [...] Il est supporté par cinq statues, la Foi, l'Epérance, la Charité, la Tempérance et la Justice [...] On connaît le nom du sculpteur Douaré Aillot de Recouvrance, qui semble avoir travaillé pour la marine royale [...] Oeuvre restaurée en 2009 par l'Atelier Le Ber." Illustrated in Mémoire [ref.: AP29W01192]. On-ste notes: the font has two constructional basins, the second one much smaller and looking more like an appendix, although it does have its own base, a round colonnette. The main basin is round with a few mouldings around the sides; in between these there is an inscription [cf. Inscription]; the underbowl has ribs with arch-like tops. The base is cylindrical and has ornamentation matching the ribs of the underbowl. The lower base is round at two levels. The ornamentation of the small basin is similar and includes a date, "1656", carved in the gaps between the tops of the ribs. The most striking, and interesting, appeal of this font is in the baldaquin which houses it, a beautiful 17th century work done by Réné Alliot [cf. infra] of Brest in 1683 [date visible on the baldaquin]. The finial of the baldaquin is Christ holding the cross standing on a baldaquin roof held by two angels (it houses a cleric/saint (?)); five columns support the roof, a statue of virtue at each: 1)Faith, 2)Temperance, 3)Charity, 4)Hope and 5)Justice, each holding its distinctive symbol; the ceiling of the canopy has a depiction of the Baptism of Christ. The Dictionnaire des églises... (1966- ) gives the name of the sculptor of the baldaquin as Honoré Alliot de Recouvrance.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 48.413508, -3.95595

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 48° 24′ 48.63″ N, 3° 57′ 21.42″ W

UTM: 30U 429263 5362703

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, granite?

Font Shape: round (double font)

Basin Interior Shape: round (both basins)

Basin Exterior Shape: round (both basins)

Rim Thickness: 9 cm(basin1); 3-5 cm(basin2

Diameter (inside rim): 73 cm(basin1); 25-28 cm (basin2)

Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm(basin1); 37 cm (basin2)

Basin Depth: 25 cm(basin1); 13 cm (basin2)

Basin Total Height: 48 cm(basin1); 30 cm(basin2)

Height of Base: 58 cm(basin1); 70 cm(basin2)

Font Height (less Plinth): 106 cm(basin1); 100cm(basin2)

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: French

Inscription Notes: Malle adds (Breton et Brat 1656)

Inscription Location: On the basin side under the rim

Inscription Text: BSI on-site transcription: "CE: LVI: QVI: CROIRA: ET S[E]RA: BAPTISE. SERA. SAVVE. F. F. PAR: F. BRETON. &. Y. K. BRAT. F. B." Malle's version: "Celui qui croira être baptisé sera sauvé"

Inscription Source: BSI on-site. Also in Malle.

LID INFORMATION

Date: contemporary with the baldaquin?

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: only on the larger basin

REFERENCES

Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-

Malle, Louis, Sources du baptême: découvrir les baptistères et les fonts baptismaux, Paris: Éditions de l'atelier, 1994

Phaidon, France: a Phaidon cultural guide, Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985