Gerona No. 1 / Girona / Jerunda / Oppidum Gerunda

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Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12

Scene Description: [only St. Bartholomew, St. John, St. Mathew and St. Plhilip identified from the source images]

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 7/5/2004)

angel - cherub - 12

Scene Description: one at each angle of the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of May 8, 2004)

design element - architectural - arcade

Scene Description: very ornate arches, one on each side of the basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 7/5/2004)

design element - architectural - column - 12

Scene Description: one at each angle, as a buttress

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 7/5/2004)

design element - motifs - circle

Scene Description: a series of them, all around the centre ring

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: a narrow band, just below the rim, all around the basin sides

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net]

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 7/5/2004)

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: covering most of the surface of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of May 8, 2004)

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: B&W digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: B&W digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: B&W digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: B&W digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - cloister - detail

Image Source: digital image of a photograph taken 3 August 1997 by BSI

view of church exterior - east view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 May 2007 by DagafeSQV [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Absis_Catedral_de_Girona.JPG] [accessed 28 October 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - tower and cloister

Scene Description: the old tower ["torre de Carlomagno"] and the cloister -- Source caption: "Primitiva torre de la catedral románica incorporada a la nueva fábrica gótica como contrafuerte."

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 28 April 2012 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Torre_de_Carlomagno_(s._XI).jpg] [accessed 28 August 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0

view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Scene Description: this view of the cathedral from the northeast gives a view of how the Romanesque tower [so called Charlemagne's tower] was incorporated into the later building

Image Source: digital photograph taken 3 October 2013 by Doronenko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Catedral_de_Santa_Maria_de_Girona_12.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2016]

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view of church exterior in context - northwest view

Image Source: digital image taken 21 June 2010 by the Generalitat de Catalunya [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Girona_2016.JPG] [accessed 28 October 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-4.0

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Terminada en 1347, se observa las primeras trazas gótica con planta de tres naves."

Image Source: digital photograph [edited] taken 28 April 2012 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Gerona._Cabecera.jpg] [accessed 28 August 2016]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-3.0

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of May 8, 2004)

INFORMATION

FontID: 06078GER

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Catedral de Santa Maria

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Plaça de la Catedral, s/n, 17004 Gerona / Girona, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya

Directions to Site: Located in the Plaza de la Catedral, downtown Gerona capital

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Gerona

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the baptistery chapel, earlier known as "Sant Julià i Santa Basilisa"

Date: ca. 1545?

Century and Period: 16th century(mid?), Renaissance

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Guido de Bonjoc [aka Belljoch, Belljoc], Joan Roig and Maestro Tomás

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for bringing this font to our attention and for her images of it; and to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] for his image of this font

Church Notes: original church converted into Mosque in 717; re-consecrated as Christian church in 908; re-built 1064, 1312, 1606; notable Romanesque cloister

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Dodecagonal mounted baptismal font of the 16th century in the Renaissance style; a large arcade covers the sides of the basin, a figure [saint/Apostle] in each arch; the arches themselves are richly ornamented; the buttresses of the angles are ornate columns with capitals and bases; a narrow band of foliage motif adorns the upper basin sides just below the protruding rim; an inscription runs all around the lower basin side, each figure has a corresponding name under it [e.g.: St. Batholomew - St. Thomas - St. Philip]. The chamfer of the underbowl is ornamented with angels at the angles; their wings extend along the sides; this underbowl is rounded and narrows to a centre ring and a splayed base totally covered in foliage motif. Nadal i Farreras (2002: 117) informs that the font was commissioned in 1535 to the brother of the main master of the Cathedral work, the Provençal Guido de Bonjoc [or Belljoch], but it was finshed only ten years later with the intervention of Joan Roig (540) and Master Tomás (1545) [NB: Barral i Altet (1994: 81) uses the Catalan form "Joan de Belljoc" for the artist]. The font is raised on a splayed polygonal base ornamented chiefly with foliage motif, and partly sunk on the ground, approximately to the level of the centre ring of the base. The flat polygonal lid appears covered in carved leather (?) [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for bringing this font to our attention and for her images of it; and to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] for his image of this font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 41.9875, 2.826389

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 41° 59′ 15″ N, 2° 49′ 35″ E

UTM: 31T 485619 4648403

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: dodecagonal (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: dodecagonal

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: [only part of the inscription is available at present]

Inscription Location: around the lower basin side

Inscription Text: [partial transcription only: "SANCTVS BARTHOLOMEVS : SANCTVS THOMAS : SANCTVS PHILIPPVS : [...]" : SANCTE IOHANNES"]

Inscription Source: Nadal i Farreras (2002: ill. on p. 117); Barral i Altet (1994: 83-84)

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: appears to be covered in worked leather

REFERENCES

Barral i Altet, Xavier, Las catedrals de Catalunya, Barcelona: Edicions 62, 1994

Mehling, Franz N., Spain: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1985

Nadal i Farreras, Joaquim, La Catedral de Girona: una interpretación, Barcelona: Lunwerg, 2002