Fribourg / Freiburg / Freiburg im Üechtland
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B01: Apostle or saint - St. John the Baptist - holding a lamb
![part of the Baptism of Christy scene? [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/permission_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: part of the Baptism of Christy scene? [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Éditions du Perron, 2007
Image Source: detail of an illustration in L'art mosan, 2007
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
![the baptism scene is complete in three sides [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: the baptism scene is complete in three sides [cf. Font notes]
![the baptism scene is complete in three sides [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
B01: angel - holding clothes
Scene Description: part of the Baptism of Christy scene? [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Éditions du Perron, 2007
Image Source: detail of an illustration in L'art mosan, 2007
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B02: Apostle or saint - St. Nicholas - with mitre and staff
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150426001_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dies on Commons, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 August 2013 by Dies on Commons [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedrale_sculpture_baptistere_nicolas.jpg] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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B03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - symbol - eagle - with book
Scene Description: seen here to the right of St. Nicholas
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2013
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 11 January 2013 by Zairon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fribourg_Kathedrale_St._Nicolas_Innen_Taufbecken_2.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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B04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - winged bull - with book
Scene Description: Luke himself is shown in the foreground holding a book, while his symbol appears in the background
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Laurom, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 January 2008 by Laurom [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friburgo_Cattedrale_Fonte_Battesimale.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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B05: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with book
Scene Description: Matthew himself is shown in the foreground, with an angel holding a book in the background
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Laurom, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 3 January 2008 by Laurom [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friburgo_Cattedrale_Fonte_Battesimale_2.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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B06: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with book
Scene Description: Mark himself is shown in the foreground holding a book, while his symbol appears in the background
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Éditions du Perron, 2007
Image Source: detail of an illustration in L'art mosan, 2007
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New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ
![[cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150426014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 January 2013 by Zairon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fribourg_Kathedrale_St._Nicolas_Innen_Taufbecken_2.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Laurom, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2008 by Laurom [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friburgo_Cattedrale_Fonte_Battesimale_2.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: forming volutes, arches, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 January 2013 by Zairon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fribourg_Kathedrale_St._Nicolas_Innen_Taufbecken_2.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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design element - patterns - tracery
Scene Description: a complex set on the underbowl and upper base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2013
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 11 January 2013 by Zairon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fribourg_Kathedrale_St._Nicolas_Innen_Taufbecken_2.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norbert Aepli / Noebu, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2013 by Norbert Aepli / Noebu [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-04-04_Fribourg_0560.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norbert Aepli / Noebu, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2013 by Norbert Aepli / Noebu [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-04-04_Fribourg_0562.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norbert Aepli / Noebu, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2013 by Norbert Aepli / Noebu [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-04-04_Fribourg_0538.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Norbert Aepli / Noebu, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 April 2013 by Norbert Aepli / Noebu [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2013-04-04_Fribourg_0570.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 January 2013 by Zairon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fribourg_Kathedrale_St._Nicolas_Innen_4.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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view of font and cover
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 January 2008 by Laurom [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friburgo_Cattedrale_Fonte_Battesimale.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Zairon, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 January 2013 by Zairon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fribourg_Kathedrale_St._Nicolas_Innen_Taufbecken_1.JPG] [accessed 26 April 2015]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 04736FRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Cathédrale Saint-Nicolas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Church Location: Rue du Pont-Suspendu, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland -- Tel.: +41 26 347 10 40
Country Name: Switzerland
Location: Fribourg
Directions to Site: Located about 28 km SW of Bern
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the chapel of Notre-Dame-de-la-Victoire
Date: 1498-1499
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hermann and Gylian Ätterli
Cognate Fonts: replica copy made in 1500 for Saint-Benoît de Bienne
Church Notes: original church here started 1283
Font Notes:
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Described in Lasteyrie (1926-1927) as a baptismal font of which the Swiss are very proud ["dont les Suisses sont très fiers"]; Lasteyrie praises the very delicate ornamental work which denotes the extreme craftmanship of the artists who executed it. That said, however, Lasteyrie (ibid.) shows his true colours and adds that their complex shapes and tortured designs show the pernitious influence exercised by the German artists of the late-15th century on the art of the neighbouring countries [="leurs formes compliquées, leur dessin tourmenté montrent la fâcheuse influence exercée par les artistes allemands de la fin du XVe siècle sur l'art des pays limitrophes"] [NB: cf. Index entry for the font at Rouffach in Haute-Rhin for more of Lasteyrie's views on the German art of the period]. De Caumont (1825) describes this font and the one at Strasbourg as masterpieces of 15th-century sculpture. The font is described and illustrated in Kurmann (2007), as a masterpiece by the hands of Hermann and Gylian Ätterli, made in 1498-1499. It consists of an octagonal basin with moulded upper rim, while the sides themselves form an intricate network of spaces; on the upper sides, below the rim, large semicircular panels contains angels and saintly figures, some with books, scrolls, etc., which are identified in this source as: the Baptism of Christ, with John the Baptist, an angel holding Christ's vestments, over three sides of the basin; the four Evangelists and their symbols, and St. Nicholas himself occupy the remaing five side panels; the lower sides become more openwork around a star-shaped base; the font is raised on a wooden octagonal plinth. The gilded wooden cover is a dome-shaped octagon; the finial is a sculpture representing the Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist; the font cover is raised via a pulley mechanism. [NB: this same source informs that a replica copy of this font was made for the church of Saint-Benoît de Bienne in 1500].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 46.8062, 7.16305
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 46° 48′ 22.32″ N, 7° 9′ 46.98″ E
UTM: 32T 359842 5185266
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
LID INFORMATION
Date: 15th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: yes; pulley
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
La cathédrale Saint-Nicolas de Fribourg: miroir du gothique européen, Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des arts, 2007
Caumont, Arcisse de, Essai sur l'architecture religieuse du Moyen Age, principalement en Normandie, Caen: Chalopin fils, 1825
Esquié, J.J., "Note sur une cuve baptismale en plomb", 8e série, t. II, 1880, Mémoires de l'Académie des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres, 1880, pp. 1-11 [-41?]; 8n
Lasteyrie du Saillant, Robert Charles, conte de, Architecture réligieuse en France à l'époque gothique (éd. posthume par Marcel Aubert)[2 vols.], Paris: A. Picard, 1926-1927