Seville No. 2 / Hispalis / Sevilla

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angel - standing - showing wings - open arms - holding hands

Scene Description: all around the stem of the base

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph March 2011 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capilla_de_San_Antonio.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in some of the spandrels of the ribbed pattern on the underbowl

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by BSI

design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: several

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph March 2011 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capilla_de_San_Antonio.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: all around the basin sides

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph March 2011 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capilla_de_San_Antonio.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: at the upper end of the stem of the base

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph March 2011 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capilla_de_San_Antonio.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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design element - patterns - ribbed - concave - insert

Scene Description: all around the underbowl

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph March 2011 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capilla_de_San_Antonio.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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view of baptistery

Scene Description: the Capilla de San Antonio

Image Source: digital photograph 7 November 2015 by Pepe Becerra [commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reja_de_la_capilla_de_San_Antonio._(Catedral_de_Sevilla).JPG] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by BSI

view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Bild från Johanna Kempes f. Wallis resa genom Spanien, Portugal och Marokko 18 Mars - 5 Juni 1895. Sevilla, katedralen. Nyckelord: Resealbum, Sevilla, Foto, Arkitektur, Spanien, Katedral"

Image Source: digital image [HWY LXVI:K.N.37] by Jenny Bergensten of an 1895 photograph in Johanna Kempes f. Wallis' travel album in the Hallwylska museet [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bild_från_Johanna_Kempes_f._Wallis_resa_genom_Spanien,_Portugal_och_Marocko_18_Mars_-_5_Juni_1895_-_Hallwylska_museet_-_103299.tif] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Catedral de Sevilla, Fachada oeste, portada del Bautismo"

Image Source: digital photograph 2 November 2008 by Anual [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_001.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Catedral de Sevilla, Fachada oeste, portada del Bautismo"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2 November 2008 by Anual [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_001.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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view of church exterior - west portal - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Catedral de Sevilla. Tímpano de la portada del Bautismo."

Image Source: digital photograph 14 June 2014 by Miguel Hermoso Cuesta [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_de_Sevilla._Portada_del_Bautismo._01.JPG] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2004 by David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com]

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by BSI

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by BSI

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption: "Adorno floral en la pila de la catedral de Sevilla para el bautizo de un niño."

Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2021 by Pedro Novella

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view of font - upper view

Image Source: digital photograph 17 February 2020 by Nxr-at [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taufbecken_Baptismal_fonts_in_the_Cathedral_of_Seville.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Pila bautismal (s. XVI), colocada en el interior de la capilla de San Antonio de la catedral de Sevilla, (España)."

Image Source: digital photograph March 2011 by José Luis Filpo Cabana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capilla_de_San_Antonio.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07039SEV

Church/Chapel: Santa Iglesia Catedral Metropolitana

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Av. de la Constitución, 41004 Sevilla, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Sevilla, Andalucía

Directions to Site: Located in downtown Seville

Font Location in Church: In the Capilla de San Antonio, which is located on the row of chapels bordering the south side of the Patio de los Naranjos, on the NW side of the nave

Century and Period: 16th century, Renaissance

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to David de la Garma, of www.arteguias.com, and to Pedro Novella for their photographs of this font

Church Notes: There are two Murillo paintings in this chapel: "La visión de San Antonio" and "El Bautismo de Cristo"

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

On-site notes: baptismal font of the 16th century (?) located in the Capilla de San Antonio, in the metropolitan cathedral of Seville [the notice beside the font informs that the font was installed at the present site in 1656, but does give its origin]; this elegant Renaissance font is made of white marble and consists of a shallow hemispherical basin mounted on a cylindrical pedestal base [the lower part of the base stands in polygonal recessed niche below ground level where the hidden lights provide the font with a very striking illumination]; the narrow external sides of the basin are decorated with a vine in very low relief, just incised, all around; the ubnderbowl is decorated with a pattern of concave ribs, with foliage motifs in some of the spandrels; the stem of the base has a row of standing angels showing their wings and holding hands, framed between several roll mouldings. [cf. Index entry for Sevilla No. 3 for a vessel now serving as water fountain in the cathedral's Patio de los Naranjos [Orange-tree courtyard], said to have been originally a Visigothic baptismal font or a tub from the Roman termae [both claims equally far-fetched]]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 37.386091, -5.993658

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 37° 23′ 9.93″ N, 5° 59′ 37.17″ W

UTM: 30S 234957 4141911

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (white)

Number of Pieces: two?

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 8 - 10 cm*

Diameter (includes rim): 200 - 210 cm*

Basin Depth: 30 cm*

Basin Total Height: 60 cm*

Height of Base: 90 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 150 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * [all measures are estimates -- no direct acces to the font allowed]