Paganos / Páganos

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B01: design element - motifs - spiral (striated)

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

INFORMATION

FontID: 07530PAG
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off (S) the A124, 2-3 km NW of Laguardia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Century and Period: 16th century, Late Gothic? / Renaissance?
Described in Bilbao (1994: 35, 128) as a baptismal font of the 16th century, its basin ornamented with striated spiral motifs in the Renaissance style; reported in the same source (ibid.) as one of the oldest of the Rioja Alavesa region. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. Described in Arriola Loyola (1996: 97) as a fine baptismal font of the 16th century ornamented with striated lines and enclosed in a fine iron railing of the same period.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Arriola Loyola, Juan Luis, Trayecto alavés: de Oyón a Etxandio, [Vitoria]: Diputación Foral de Alava, Dpto. de Cultura y Euskera; Caja Laboral Popular, 1996
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994