Arcusa No. 2

Permission received

Results: 10 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

B01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: a thick one, 2/3 down the basin side, all around

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

B02: design element - motifs - ball

Scene Description: several, alternating with the crude heads

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

BBL01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: a thinner one, around the lower rim

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

BH01: human figure - head

Scene Description: several, crude and flat, around the basin side

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

LB01: design element - motifs - floral

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

LB03: design element - motifs - plant or tree?

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

LB04: design element - motifs - varied

Scene Description: geometrical motifs of a varied nature: some appear to be wheels, concentric circles, etc.

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

view of base

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

view of font

Image Source: Antonio García Omedes, www.romanicoaragones.com

Copyright Instructions: Permission received

INFORMATION

FontID: 06375ARC

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial [modern church]

Country Name: Spain

Location: Huesca, Aragón

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Ainsa-Sobrarbe, 78 km from Huesca, on the road to Buil

Font Location in Church: In the west end

Century and Period: 13th - 15th century [basin], Medieval [composite]

Cognate Fonts: Coscojuela de Fantova (basin only)

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

García Omedes' web site http://www.webcindario.com/sobrarbe/99025-ArcusaPila.htm describes and illustrates this baptismal font of obvious composite nature now located in the parish church of Arcusa; the basin is roughly cylindrical ornamented around its middle with a number of flat human faces crudely rendered; between the heads are ball motifs; below the heads, about 2/3 down the basin side, a thick rope moulding all around; lower still, right at the lower rim, a thinner rope moulding. The base is a quadrangular pedestal, three of its sides ornamented with floral, foliage and geometric motifs. This source suggests a 16th-century dating for the basin by analogy to the one at Coscojuela de Fantova, but the work on the basin sides could be earlier [the church at Coscojuela de Fantova belongs to the Aragonese Gothic style]. The same source quotes Aramendia [?] with the suggestion that it could be from an earlier Mozarabic or Visigothic building, perhaps an altar base; it also considers the possibility that it be a copy of a 9th or 10th century artist's style. [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela for bringing this font to our attention, and to Antonio García Omedes [www.romanicoaragones.com] for the information and images of this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: cylindrical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round