Arles No. 2
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Results: 8 records
design element - patterns - sawtooth
Scene Description: all around
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: all around the outside
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design element - motifs - groove - parallel - 2
Scene Description: all around the outside
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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave
Scene Description: all round the inside of the basin well
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view of church exterior - cloister - wellhead
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view of stoup in context
Scene Description: in the cloister, by the well-head
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human figure - male
Scene Description: right arm supports the basin, left hand rests on his knee
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view of stoup
Scene Description: with the upper end of the well-head in the foreground
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 04700ARL
Object Type: Stoup
Date Visited: 2001-06-11
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th - 15th century, Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: Église Saint-Trophime d'Arles
Font Location in Church: In the cloister, against one of the pillars of an angle of the cloister
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Trophimus of Arles [aka Thrôphime, Trophemus, Trófimo]
Church Notes: church built 12thC on a 5thC Early Christian basilica -- listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00081139] -- The church of St-Trophime has a remarkable 12thC. portal and a cloister described as "a real book in stone" [source: France: a Phaidon Cultural Guide (1985: 45)]
Church Address: 12 rue du Cloître, 13200 Arles, France -- Tel.: +33 4 90 96 07 38
Site Location: Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe
Directions to Site: The church of St-Trophime is located in the place de la République, opposite the Musée lapidaire, not far from both the Roman Theatre and Amphitheatre.
Additional Comments: figural stoup: see also the one in the church of St-Malo in Dinan
Font Notes:
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Described in Lasteyrie (1929) as a holy-water stoup, probably from the end of the 12th century at the earliest; the base is a man who appears to bend under the burden; "un travail assez médiocre", according to Lasteyrie. Holy-water stoup of stone located in the cloister, against the wall, by the well-head; it consists of a humen figure on bent knees holding up a ribbed circular basin, the right hand on the basin side, the left no his knee; the style of the work is not 12th-century; the basin has convex ribbed pattern on the outside and concave ribbed pattern on the inside, usually found on Gothic vessels; the figure and the folds of the garment worn also suggest a later period [NB: the church of St-Malo in Dinan has a stoup of a much later date that has a grimacing demon supporting the basin - cf. Index entry for Dinan No. 2 for details]. The stoup stands against a corner, right next to the well-head.
COORDINATES
UTM: 31T 631236 4837250
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.676667, 4.628056
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 40′ 36″ N, 4° 37′ 41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Font Shape: multi-lobed, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: multi-lobed
Basin Exterior Shape: multi-lobed
Notes on Measurements: No measurements taken
REFERENCES
- Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque romane (2e éd., avec une bibliographie critique par Marcel Aubert), Paris: A. Picard, 1929, p. 711