Basquinuelas / Basconguelas / Basquiñuelas

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animal - bird - dove - 2 - facing away from each other

Scene Description: seen here in the centre and left: the general shape and the plumage pattern on their bodies may suggest female ring-necked pheasants, but they may have been intended simply as doves by the artesan who carved them

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_BASQUIÑUELAS.pdf] [accessed 1 August 2024

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animal - mammal - quadruped - passant

Scene Description: seen here on the left, passant to the right, facing one of the two large birds -- one source suggests an identification as a lamb [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08370] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60664] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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animal - reptile - snake

Scene Description: the body ondulates around the two birds and may have been meant to tie in with the snake head that shows beneath the strange floaring creature on the right

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_BASQUIÑUELAS.pdf] [accessed 1 August 2024

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animal - unidentified

Scene Description: Described in one of the sources as "uno de los monstruos que decoran la copa de la pila bautismal. Es un ave con cola de serpiente y una cabeza redonda bastante desproporcionada" -- it is a rather intriguing motif floating to the right of the two larger birds

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_BASQUIÑUELAS.pdf] [accessed 1 August 2024

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design element - architectural - column - clustered columns - torsade - 3

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detalle del pie cuadrangular de la pila bautismal; presenta tres columnas torsas" -- the base is made up of twelve clustered colonnettes, thre of which are torsade; the rest are plain

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08368] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60662] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: what is it meant to be? is the snake head part of it?

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08371] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60665] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Detalle de la decoración de la copa; presenta dos aves afrontadas que giran su cabeza hacia atrás y que se hallan rodeadas por un cordón. Junto a una de ellas, un animal de dos patas con cola y la boca abierta"

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08369] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/60663] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of church exterior

Scene Description: Source caption: "Iglesia de San Ginés de Basquiñuelas. Vista lateral del exterior de la iglesia; en primer término, el pórtico con doble entrada y la torre campanario de planta cuadrada y doble cuerpo"

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 00682] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/46631] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - apse - capital

Scene Description: Source caption: "Capitel de la iglesia de San Ginés de Basquiñuelas, Álava [...] presenta dos figuras humanas realizadas de modo tosco y con cierto movimiento"

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 06560] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/57906] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - apse - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Podemos encontrar unas pequeñas figuras antropomorfas, muy toscas y mal conservadas, e incrustadas en el muro exterior del ábside. Están escondidas entre las piedras del muro, y su posición actual nos indica que están desplazadas de su posición original."

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_BASQUIÑUELAS.pdf] [accessed 1 August 2024

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Portada de la iglesia de San Ginés [...] Vista frontal de la portada de arco de medio punto ligeramente apuntado, volteado en impostas lisas, sin decoración. Las arquivoltas presentan decoración de ajedrezados y otros motivos decorativos"

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 06558] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66400] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of church exterior - south portal

Scene Description: showing the font in the interior

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_BASQUIÑUELAS.pdf] [accessed 1 August 2024

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view of font

Scene Description: Source capture: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Ginés de Basquiñuelas. La pila es la pieza más interesante del templo parroquial de Basquiñuelas. Las columnas del pie presentan un dibujo sogueado, mientras que en la taza los relieves, toscos pero de gran dinamismo, son de aves y otros animales"

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08367] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66008] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_BASQUIÑUELAS.pdf] [accessed 1 August 2024

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 21221] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66007] [accessed 1 August 2024]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07436BAS

Church/Chapel: Iglesia parroquial de San Ginés / San Gines eliza

Church Patron Saints: St. Genesius of Arles [aka Genès, Geniès. Gennis, Gennys]

Church Location: 01420 Basquiñuelas, Álava, Spain

Country Name: Spain

Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi

Directions to Site: Located off the A-4317, in the municiplaity of Ribera Alta, 28 km WSW across from Vitoria

Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria

Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Añana

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in an alcove, N side of the nave

Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: The font at Hereña, in the same region has bird motifs, though not identical

Church Notes: 13th-14thC(?) church [may have been part of a monastery documented in 1216, the church of which served as parochial]; modified 15th-16th; much modified 18th-19thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66008] [accessed 1 August 2024]: "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de San Ginés de Basquiñuelas. Vista frontal de una pila bautismal de estilo románico. La copa se decora con dos palomas rodeadas por un lazo al exterior del cual se situan dos monstruos; el pie es cuadrangular y está formado por doce columnas, tres de las cuales son torsas". Captions in additional photographs in the same source note: "Detalle de la decoración de la copa; presenta dos aves afrontadas que giran su cabeza hacia atrás y que se hallan rodeadas por un cordón. Junto a una de ellas, un animal de dos patas con cola y la boca abierta [...] Detalle de uno de los monstruos que decoran la copa de la pila bautismal. Es un ave con cola de serpiente y una cabeza redonda bastante desproporcionada [...] La pila es la pieza más interesante del templo parroquial de Basquiñuelas. Las columnas del pie presentan un dibujo sogueado, mientras que en la taza los relieves, toscos pero de gran dinamismo, son de aves y otros animales". Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1994: 26, 57, 58, 112 and figs. 29, 30) as a medieval baptismal font consisting of a hemispherical basin mounted on a base of twelve constructional shafts, the three facing front with torsade pattern. Bilbao (ibid.: 57-58) describes the ornamentation as a pair of birds surrounded by a protective rope-like shape outside which lurks a monster on each side. Bilbao (ibid.) suggests the birds are doves and offers the mandorla motif as a reference for the protective rope-like motif [NB: although the images provided do not furnish a clear image of the motifs, the "cordón" suggested by Bilbao looks suspiciously like a serpent, in tune perhaps with the other two "monsters" lurking about]. The three shafts at the front of the base are of the torsade type, while the other nine appear plain. Bilbao (ibid.: 57) points out the font at Hereña, in the same region, which has two birds drinking from a vessel in the traditional manner. Bilbao (ibid.: 112) cites entries in López de Guereñu and Portilla. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_BASQUIÑUELAS.pdf] [accessed 1 August 2024] notes: "Merece destacarse la pila bautismal que alberga la iglesia en uno de sus laterales. Se trata de una de las pilas bautismales más interesantes del románico alavés. La decoración principal se desarrolla en la parte superior de la pila, es decir, en la taza. Se nos muestran motivos anima lísticos. Son dos aves de mayor tamaño, acompañadas de dos cuadrúpedos más pequeños, quizá dos corderos. No falta tampoco la forma de una serpiente que, a modo de tentación, se esconde en la figura del cordero, que representa a quien está pendiente de recibir el sacramento del bautismo. Pese a la sencillez de las figuras de los animales, esta temática representa el triunfo sobre el pecado original, que se alcanza a través del sacramento del bautismo, figurado por las palomas, un tema ampliamente utilizado en la historia del cristianismo." There is no font cover present but the upper rim of the basin retains two metal staples from the earlier anchoring points.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.812167, -2.961167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 48′ 43.8″ N, 2° 57′ 40.2″ W

UTM: 30T 503175 4739957

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994

Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico, Fundación Santa María la Real, 2020+. Accessed: 2024-08-01 00:00:00. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.

López de Guereñu, Gerardo, Alava, 1962

Portilla Vitoria, Micaela J., "Arte románico: raíces y evolución", 1983