Acilu / Açilu / Azilu
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Scene Description: damage and repair at upper rim
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Scene Description: notice the damage to the upper rim
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_AZILU.pdf] [accessed 22 June 2024]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Aziluko eliza (Iruraitz-Gauna)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Asier Sarasua Garmendia, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 10 April 2017 by Asier Sarasua Garmendia [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aziluko_eliza_(iruraitz-gauna).jpg] [accessed 22 June 2024]
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design element - motifs - foliage
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Image Source: received from Francisco Guinea via Pedro Novella [original image appears to be from FSMLR}
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fundación Santa María la Real, 2024
Image Source: digital photograph in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_AZILU.pdf] [accessed 22 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07410ACI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century (late?), Medieval
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista / Aziluko San Joan Bateatzailea eliza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: late-13thC church
Church Address: C. Acilu, 15, 01193 Acilu, Alava, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the A3110, S of the A-1, in the municipality of Iruraiz-Gauna, 18 km E of Vitoria-Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Salvatierra
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994: 107) as a medieval baptismal font consisting of a plain basin mounted on a base decorated with geometric and vegetal motifs datable to the 13th century. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entry by Portilla and Enciso Viana in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, and in López de Guereño. Listed and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_AZILU.pdf] [accessed 22 June 2024]: "El último resto románico que guarda esta iglesia es su pila bautismal, de copa y pie cilíndrico lisos, con dos baquetones arriba y abajo y, bajo el inferior, una cenefa ondulante. La basa presenta cuatro elementos decorativos, uno en cada esquina: una hoja de cinco puntas, una bola plana, dos bolas con una única caperuza, y un elemento vegetal muy deteriorado. Las caras de la basa se decoran también con flores geométricas insertas en semicírculos, dos en cada cara, motivo que aparece en Argandoña y que está inspirado en tipos de Estíbaliz."
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Fundación Santa María la Real [www.romanicodigital.com] for their permission to reproduce content from the Enciclopedia del románico
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 543039 4742202
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.831179, -2.47341
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 49′ 52.24″ N, 2° 28′ 24.28″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
- Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968, vol. IV: 149
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 107
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.
- López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962, p. 282