Seville No. 2 / Hispalis / Sevilla
Image copyright © Pedro Novella, 2021
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 22 October 2021)
Results: 19 records
angel - standing - showing wings - open arms - holding hands
Scene Description: all around the stem of the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2011
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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: in some of the spandrels of the ribbed pattern on the underbowl
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2011
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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: all around the basin sides
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2011
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2011
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
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2011
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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of baptistery
Scene Description: the Capilla de San Antonio
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pepe Becerra, 2015
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
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"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
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]
Copyright Instructions: PD Sweden / PD-1996 / CC-PD-Mark
view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Catedral de Sevilla, Fachada oeste, portada del Bautismo"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anual, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph 2 November 2008 by Anual [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catedral_001.jpg] [accessed 28 October 2021]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0
view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Catedral de Sevilla, Fachada oeste, portada del Bautismo"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anual, 2008
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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0
view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Catedral de Sevilla. Tímpano de la portada del Bautismo."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Miguel Hermoso Cuesta, 2014
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-ES
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © David de la Garma Ramírez / ARTEGUIAS, 2005
Image Source: digital photograph 22 February 2004 by David de la Garma [www.arteguias.com]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 22/2/2004)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by digital photograph taken 11 June 2005 by BSI
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
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."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pedro Novella, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 21 October 2021 by Pedro Novella
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 22 October 2021)
view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Nxr-at, 2020
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]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baptisteria Sacra Index, 2023
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)."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luis Filpo Cabana, 2011
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]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-4.0,3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
INFORMATION
FontID: 07039SEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
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:
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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]