Runsten

Results: 14 records

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LBH01: human figure - head - 4

Scene Description: at 90-degree angles

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus - with arum bunches

Scene Description: all around the basin

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

design element - patterns - scalloped

Scene Description: covering the whole underbowl

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of basin and baptismal dish

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by Håkan Svensson Xauxa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runsten_church_baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 28 December 2017]

Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0

view of church exterior - northeast view

Scene Description: the new 1830s church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 June 2017 by Bernt Fransson,Lindås [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runstens_kyrka_exteriör_005.jpg] [accessed 28 December 2017]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Scene Description: the 1830s new church

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of church exterior - west tower - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: with the font visible at the northeast angle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by Håkan Svensson Xauxa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runsten_church_nave.jpg] [accessed 28 December 2017]

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view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 July 2004 by Bernt Fransson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RunstenPICT0382.JPG] [accessed 28 December 2017]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 August 2005 by Håkan Svensson Xauxa [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Runsten_church_baptismal_font2.jpg] [accessed 28 December 2017]

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view of font in context

Scene Description: at the right, by the window, an early tabernacle

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 20 July 2002 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 05257RUN

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Runstens nya kyrka

Church Location: Runsten, Öland, Sweden

Country Name: Sweden

Location: Öland, Kalmar län

Directions to Site: Located on the E coast of Öland, off the east highway, between Lerkaka [N) and Lopperstad (S), 25 km SSE of Borgholm

Ecclesiastic Region: Växjö stift

Historical Region: Runstens härad, Öland

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the E end, N side, to the left of the altar

Date: ca. 1210-1250?

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Calcarius II? / Calcarius III?

Church Notes: present church 1835-1836 just north of the site of a 12thC chapel; the old chapel was demolished at the time of the construction of the new church; only the foundations remain now

Font Notes: Click to view

Described and illustrated in Boström (1966- , Bd. II, hft. 5, p. 62, 110ff): "Christening font from c 1210-1250, made of limestone from Gotland, and attributed to the so-called Calcarius II" (ibid. p. 110). The attribution to Calcarius II is referred from Roosvald (1918: 169ff) and Strömbom (1942: 81ff) (in Boström, ibid., p. 136 n106). This same font is attributed "with some hesitation" by Reutersvärd (1972: 108ff) to another master, Calcarius III (Boström, ibid., p. 136 n107). The font is "partly greyish-yelow in the bowl, partly reddish in the shaft. The vine leaves around the bowl symbolize both Christ (cf St John 15:5) and the Tree of Life, and the scales on the underside of the bowl are, according to Reutersvärd, 'a water motif depicting the well in Paradise.'" (Boström, ibid., p. 147).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.699167, 16.699444

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 41′ 57″ N, 16° 41′ 58″ E

UTM: 33V 604063 6285189

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone (Gotland)

Number of Pieces: three?

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 75 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 97 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Boström (1966- , Bd. 2, hft. 5: 113)

REFERENCES

Boström, Ragnhild, Sveriges Kyrkor: Öland, Stockholm: Generalstabens litografiska anstals förlag, 1966-

Reutersvärd, Oskar, "Den magdeburgska porträttbildhuggaren", Fornvännen. Tidskrift for Svensk Antikvarisk Forskning, 1972

Roosval, Johnny, Die Steinmeister Gottlands: Eine Geschichte der führenden Taufsteinwerkstätte des schwedischen Mittlealters, ihre Voraussetzungen und Begleit-Erscheinungen, Stockholm: A.-B. C.E. Fritzes K. Hofbokhandel, 1918

Strömbom, Ragnhild, "Calcarius, en gotländsk stenhuggareverkstad under 1100-talets slut och 1200-talets förra hälft", XI-XIII (1942-1944), Konsthistorisk tidskrift, 1942-1944