Ciney / Chinay / Cînè
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Results: 18 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B073902]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: illustration in De Bruyn (1869-1870)
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: Ronse (1929: fig. 7)
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arch-heads - with capitals - 16
Scene Description: no columnar support
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph [no author; no date] [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003020]
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animal - mammal - lion - head - 4
Scene Description: the four lion heads are located under the basin sides, properly speaking, at the corners of the underbowl; Ronse describes them as "monstres", but they fit loosely into the traditional representation of animal or human heads or masks with vegetation stemming from the mouth [cf. FontNotes] -- the one in the centre here is damaged
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph [no author; no date] [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003020]
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design element - motifs - foliage - palmette
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arcade or frieze of the basin sides -- notice in this image the details of the font cover hardware
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph [no author; no date] [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003020]
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: one of the four lion heads with vegetation stemming from the mouth at the angles of the underbowl
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B073905]
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view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B073904]
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view of basin - detail
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1900 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B003019]
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view of church exterior - west end
Scene Description: Source caption: "The storm of 14 july 2010 destroyed the churchtower and a big part of the roof of the church. The tower is temporarely shortened, while the rest of the church is rebuild."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Smiley.toerist, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 September 2010 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ciney_kerk_na_storm.jpg] [accessed 21 March 2015]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church exterior - west end
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ciney, the St-Nicolas colegiate church (before the storm of the 14th July 2010)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pol Grandmont, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 April 2005 by Jean-Pol Grandmont [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ciney_JPG00.jpg] [accessed 21 March 2015]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1943 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B043775]
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view of church exterior - northwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "tour de défense et crypte à 3 nefs datent du XIe siècle; replâtrage en 1791 par Domenico Perugini et polychromage en 1886"
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1889 [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché A003567]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: Source caption: "l'intérieur de l'église de Ciney après le passage de la tempête" -- photograph taken hours after the storm hit this church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lery, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 July 2010 by Lery [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intérieur_église_Ciney_tempête.jpg] [accessed 21 March 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1971 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M74754]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B073898]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: forming the bases of the outer colonnettes and central shaft of the base
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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph taken in 1944 by the Commissariat général à la Restauration du Pays [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B073903]
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view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), 2015
Image Source: B&W photograph taken in 1971 by Paul Aerts, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché M74771]
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02867CIN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1155-1160?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / by atelier liégois / Namur font?
Cognate Fonts: Hastieres, Lixhe, etc.
Church / Chapel Name: Église collégiale Saint-Nicolas [paroissiale] / Sint-Nicolê / Sint-Niklaaskerk
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Notes: church damaged in 14 July 2010 storm
Church Address: 5590 Ciney, Belgium
Site Location: Namur, Wallonie / Wallonne, Belgium, Europe
Directions to Site: Located near the N-4, E of Dinant,in the commune de Modave, 95 km SE of Brussels
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Historical Region: Le Condroz
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in De Bruyn (1869-1870): "Les fonts baptismaux de Ciney présentent une cuve pédiculée, dont la base est formée de deux tores superposés. Cette base est cantonnée de quatre colonnettes à base pattée, dont les volutes romanes des chapiteaux forment des espèces d ailes à des monstres à faces bestiales. Ces têtes fantastiques rachètent les écoinçons d une sorte de tailloir à mouchette, arcaturée plein-cintre. Les écoinçons des arcatures portent des coquilles. La couverture hémisphérique surmontée d'une simple croix ne présente aucun caractère spécial." Included by Cloquet (1895) among the round fonts of the Mosan type with four heads, at 90-degree angles, on the underbowl sides, although he specifies in his earlier article (1890) that this is a case "où les têtes cessent d'être humaines." Described and illustrated in Ronse (1929], where it appears topped by a hemispherical metal dome lid. An illustration in Borchgrave d'Altena's article (1971) on the Emptinne font shows a square font with a blind arcade of column-less arches, though the arches have palmette motif in the spandrels; in each corner of the chamfer there is a lion head with a broad leaf (?) in its mouth, which serve as capitals for the four detached colonnettes of the base; the central column of the base is massive. There is some pattern ornamentation where the bases of the columns of the base meet the square lower base. This same source shows a metal dome cover with a cross as finial [NB: If Borchgrave d'Altena has the right font, there is a bronze dome cover with a finial cross (Borgrave d'Althena, 1971, ill. on p. [9]); illustrated in Ronse (1929: fig. 7); the dome cover shows in Drake (2002: pl. 82) without finial]. The font is noted and illustrated in Ghislain, in L'art mosan (2007) with date suggested between 1155-1160, a work of the 'atelier liégois'.
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.296389, 5.100278
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 17′ 47″ N, 5° 6′ 1″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Font Height (less Plinth): 105 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium)
LID INFORMATION
Date: 17th century?
Material: metal, bronze? and/or brass?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- L'art mosan: Liège et son pays à l'époque romane du XIe au XIIIe siècle, Alleur: Éditions du Perron, 2007, p. 182 and fig. 2 (p.182)
- Borchgrave d'Altena, Joseph de, comte, Fonts baptismaux romans conservés au Chateau d'Emptinne, Bruxelles: [s.n.], 1971, ill. on p. [9]
- Cloquet, Louis, "Fonts de baptême romans de Tournai", 45, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1895, pp. 308-320; p. 318
- Cloquet, Louis, "Travaux des sociétés savantes: Comité des travaux historiques", 40, Revue de l'art chrétien, 1890, pp. 415-420; p. 417-418
- De Bruyn, Hyacinthe, abbé, Archéologie religieuse appliquée à nos monuments nationaux, Bruxelles: Victor Devaux et Cie., 1869-1870, vol. 2: 176-177
- Drake, Colin Stuart, The Romanesque Fonts of Northern Europe and Scandinavia, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002, p. 41 and fn21, 42, 176 and pl. 82
- Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "La cuve baptismale romane de Wauthier-Braine", VII, Annales du Cercle historique et folklorique de Braine-le-Château, Tubize et des Régions voisines, 1986, pp. 89-[120]; p. 94
- Ronse, F. T., Les fonts baptismaux de Zedelghem et les fonts romans tournaisiens du XIIe siècle, Bruges: Apostolat liturgique, 1929, p. [9] and fig. 7