Olano
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animal - fish?
![very sketchy; or are they just segments of circles? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160117011_compressed.png)
Scene Description: very sketchy; or are they just segments of circles? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 January 2016)
design element - motifs - ball
![a row all around the lower part of the basin; some are perforated [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160117014_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a row all around the lower part of the basin; some are perforated [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 January 2016)
design element - motifs - ball - 5 - in a circle
![on the stem of the base -- made of five round circles arranged in cruciform manner [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160117021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the stem of the base -- made of five round circles arranged in cruciform manner [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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design element - motifs - circle - concentric
![several [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160117010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: several [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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design element - motifs - circle - concentric
![several [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160117016_compressed.png)
Scene Description: several [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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design element - motifs - circle - concentric
![on the lower base volume [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160117022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: on the lower base volume [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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design element - motifs - circle - with radii
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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design element - motifs - circle - with radii
Scene Description: painted
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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design element - motifs - floral - 6-petal - in a circle
![two different types seen here [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1120405006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: two different types seen here [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angel Benito, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 March 2012 by Angel Benito
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design element - motifs - floral - 7-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: on the right side of the stem of the base [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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design element - motifs - floral - 7-petals - in a circle
Scene Description: on the lower base volume [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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design element - motifs - scallop
![a raw of, on the lower base volume [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1160117019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a raw of, on the lower base volume [cf. FontNotes]
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design element - motifs - scroll - linked scrolls
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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design element - motifs - spur
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human figure
Scene Description: very sketchy, like all the others
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human figure
Scene Description: child-like incision
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human figure - orant?
Scene Description: very sketchy [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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symbol - circle - with radii
Scene Description: on the lower base volume [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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symbol - star - 4-point
![on the back side of the stem of the base [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/others/image_not_available.jpg)
Scene Description: on the back side of the stem of the base [cf. FontNotes]
![on the back side of the stem of the base [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/bsi-testing-site/others/image_not_available.jpg)
symbol - star - 4-point - in a circle
Scene Description: painted
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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symbol - star - 4-point - in a circle - 3
Scene Description: on the lower base volume [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angel Benito, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 March 2012 by Angel Benito
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view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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view of church exterior - southwest view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jose Manuel Abalos, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 June 2014 by Jose Manuel Abalos [http://josema-999.blogspot.ca/2014/06/iglesia-de-olano.html] [accessed 17 January 2016]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font
Scene Description: showing some of the paint on it
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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view of font - upper view
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 November 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07525OLA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Bartolomé
Church Patron Saints: St. Bartholomew
Church Location: Olano, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the N622, in the municipality of Cigoitia / Zigoitia, just N of Zaiátegui, about 15 km NNW of Vitoria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a small baptistery under the west gallery
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Angel Benito, of AdR Alava, and to Txaro Irigoyen, for their photographs of this font.
Font Notes:
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Noted in Portilla Vitoria (1983) as a baptismal font in this locality. Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1994). The font consists of a round basin of large and irregular proportions; the basin sides are decorated with a variety of symbols and motifs: orant human figure, fish, circled crosses (?) and floral motifs, concentric circles, etc.; the lower side of the basin has a row of ball motif, some of which are perforated; the underbowl is decorated with incised linked scrolls and concentric circles; raised on a short quadrangular pedestal base the sides of which are decorated with a set of five ball motifs arranged in a Greek-cross shape and inscribed in a circle, a floral motif inscribed in a circle, etc.; the sides of the low end of the base are decorated with petal shapes arranged in circles; there are traces of bluish paint on the sides and some of the motifs of the base are painted in red-pink colours. Bilbao (ibid.) suggests the paint may well be original [NB: some of the paint may be original but there is repainting on it]. An iron staple from the old cover is still fastened to the upper rim of the basin. The workmanship on this font is crude, probably the work of a local low-skilled mason or workshop. There is plain roughly hemispherical holy-water stoup inside the church, by the entranceway; it may be late medieval.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 57' 4.65" N, 2° 45' 57.93" W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two?
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
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
Portilla Vitoria, Micaela J., "Arte románico: raíces y evolución", 1983