Selva de Mar / Sant Sebastià de la Selva de Mar / Sant Esteva de Mata / Sant Esteve de la Selva de Mar

Results: 5 records

B01: design element - motifs - floral

B02: design element - motifs - diamond or lozenge

B03: symbol - fruit - pommegranate?

B04: design element - motifs - leaf

BU01: design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches

INFORMATION

FontID: 04861SEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església Parroquial de Sant Sebastià
Church Patron Saints: St. Sebastian
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located about 10 km WNW of Cadaques, not far from Sant Pere de Rodes
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Font Notes:
Described in Catalunya romànica (1984- ) as a baptismal font with ornamentation of trilobed arches and vegetal motifs denounce a late 13th or early 14th origin; the arcade appears around the underbowl; the other motifs -rosettes and romboid shapes alternating, except two of them, a leaf and a pommegranate (?)- in high relief around the side of the basin; the pedestal base is round and plain. Listed in Bilbao (1996). Badia-Homs (2007) suggests a date in the late 13th or early 14th century.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Catalunya romànica 11: L'Alt Empordà, Barcelona: Pòrtic, 2000
Badia-Homs, Joan, "Les piques baptismals romàniques de l'Empordà", 21 (agost-setembre 2007), Taüll, 2007, pp. 7-9; p. 8
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-