Villaines-sous-Luce / Villaines-sous-Lucé

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 06101VIL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: double font
Church / Chapel Name: Église Notre-Dame
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Rue de l'Église, 72150 Villaines-sous-Lucé, France
Site Location: Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D13-D33-D304 crossroads, just E of Le Grand-Lucé, 25-30 km SE of Le Mans
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese du Mans
Additional Comments: It is interesting to find these two artisans claiming to be represented, themselves and their tools-of-the-trade, in the same manner in which the nobility had done earlier; if the dating is correct, this is only the 1500s. Although there are several such "appearances" of the artisan on his work - including fonts- this is an interesting case of a "genteel" approach in their depiction
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Le patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe (2001, v. 1: 661) as a polygonal mounted double-font, all carved out of a single block; the main basin is hexagonal, and the auxiliary one is square, both projecting their surface straight to the ground so that the surface at the top is exactly the same as the one at the bottom; the sides are ornamented with foliage and other motifs, as well as the head-portraits of the the two donors, a mason and a blacksmith, and their tools in a shield.

COORDINATES

UTM: 31T 311688 5304547
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 47.866633, 0.481963
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 47° 51′ 59.88″ N, 0° 28′ 55.07″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: double-font, polygonal, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: double basin 1) hexagonal 2) square

LID INFORMATION

Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: a single flat wooden lid shaped to cover both wells

REFERENCES

  • Le Patrimoine des communes de la Sarthe, Paris: FLOHIC, 2001, vol. 1, p. 661