Arlucea No. 1 / Arluzea

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view of font

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Image Source: digital photograph in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ARLUZEA.pdf] [accessed 28 June 2024]
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view of church exterior - porch and portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Arluzea (Araba) - San Martin eliza - Arkupeak eta ataria"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ibai1984, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 8 June 2023 by Ibai1984 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arluzea_(Araba)_-_San_Martin_eliza_-_Arkupeak_eta_ataria.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2024]
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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Arluzea (Araba) herriko plaza"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Assar, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 24 February 2018 by Asier Sarasua Garmendia, Assar [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arluzeako_plaza.jpg] [accessed 28 June 2024]
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view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: 'Detalle de la basa de la pila bautismal; está decorada con mascarones y elementos geométricos [...] pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Martín de Arlucea" [NB: a stylised plant in the middle?]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08356] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60669] [accessed 6 August 2024]
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view of base - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vista frontal de la basa de la pila bautismal; está decorada con cuatro mascarones y elementos vegetales geometrizados [...] pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Martín de Arlucea" [NB: the figure between the mascarons appears to be a quadruped passant to the left]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08357] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60670] [accessed 6 August 2024]
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view of base

Scene Description: Source caption: "Vista frontal de la basa de la pila bautismal; está decorada con cuatro mascarones y elementos vegetales geometrizados [...] pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Martín de Arlucea"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08358] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60671] [accessed 6 August 2024]
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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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_ARLUZEA.pdf] [accessed 28 June 2024]
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission received from the FSMLR

animal

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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_ARLUZEA.pdf] [accessed 28 June 2024]
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INFORMATION

Font ID: 07425ARL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Late Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Martín / San Martin eliza
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: late-Romanesque 13thC church; modified several times since
Church Address: Iglesia Kalea, 3, 01216 Arlucea/Arluzea, Alava, Spain
Site Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off road A-4150, in the municipality and 14 km N of Bernedo, 33 km SE of Vitoria-Gasteiz
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Font Notes:
Described in Bilbao (1994: 110) as a baptismal font of the 13th century; plain hemispherical basin; lower base ornamented with four grotesque heads and geometric foliage motifs. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. Listed in Arriola Loyola (1996: 139) as a baptismal font of the 13th century. Described and illustrated in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ARLUZEA.pdf] [accessed 28 June 2024], where the decoration on the lower base is described in detail and compared to the baptismal fonts of the churches of Baroja and Markinez ["Bajo el coro se halla una sencilla pila bautismal románica, compuesta por una copa semiesférica lisa, con un pie cilíndrico muy corto y apoyado sobre una basa cuadrada, decorada en las caras con sencillas hojas y en los ángulos con figuras deterioradas, en las que creemos adivinar un águila sujetando a una presa, una cabeza humana y a su lado un pequeño relieve que representa a un toro, otra cabeza humana y por último otra cabeza que podría corresponder a un león. Todo ello nos indica que estamos ante otra posible representación del Tetramorfos, tema iconográfico que podemos ver repetido en otras pilas bautismales, como la que se encuentra en la iglesia de San Martín, en Baroja –aunque en este caso está medio perdido, ya que faltan dos ángulos–, o en la de la iglesia de Santa Eulalia en Markinez, que se representa en cada una de las cuatro caras que forman el pie de la pila bautismal." There is no font cover present but the plain basin has a large damaged area at the upper rim that suggests it was caused by a metal anchor for an earlier cover.
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 537443 4730672
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.727642, -2.542641
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 43′ 39.51″ N, 2° 32′ 33.51″ 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. II: 69-70
  • Arriola Loyola, Juan Luis, Trayecto alavés: de Oyón a Etxandio, [Vitoria]: Diputación Foral de Alava, Dpto. de Cultura y Euskera; Caja Laboral Popular, 1996, p. 139
  • Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994, p. 95, 110
  • Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.