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animal - mammal - lion - rampant - 5

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2014 by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Scene Description: all around, except for the unfinished side [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2014 by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

design element - architectural - building

Scene Description: a variety of building motifs in the spandrels of the arcade [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

design element - architectural - building - fortress - 6

Scene Description: two or more, with three towers and Gothic-arch doors [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2014 by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

design element - motifs - ball - 4

Scene Description: one on each corner of the square lower base [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2014 by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

design element - motifs - ball, bead or pellet

Scene Description: to the left and right of the buildings included in the spandrels of the arcade around the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

design element - motifs - braid - 3-strand

Scene Description: with pellet motif in the spandrels of the braid; all around except where the three-head motif protrudes [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

design element - motifs - leaf - lanceolated

Scene Description: a pattern of, all around the underbowl [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4

Scene Description: with a ball on top, at each angle of the lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2014 by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the bases of the columns of the base [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2014 by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

human figure - head - triple-head motif

Scene Description: on the side corresponding to the unfinished part of the basin -- why unfinished? Why the head in this position?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2014
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken in March 2014 by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

view of basin

Scene Description: very thick sides and no trace of cover hardware (is it a later font that usually reckoned? [cf. FontNotes])
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Aource caption: "Detalle de la copa de la pila bautismal; presenta una decoración de leones rampantes y castillos alternando cobijados por arquerías de medio punto sobre es beltas columnas. En las enjutas, construcciones almenadas [...] pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 03770] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/52799] [accessed 6 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

view of church exterior - east end - detail

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

view of church exterior - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

view of font

Scene Description: Source caption; "Vista frontal de una pila bautismal; la copa presenta leones rampantes y castillos alternados cobijadas por arquerías de medio punto sobre esbeltas columnas. En las enjutas, construcciones almenadas [...] Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora en Ullíbarri-Viña"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 03763] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/52792] [accessed 6 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0

view of font - northwest side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Ramón Ugarte, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken in March 2014 by Juan Ramón Ugarte
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

view of font in context

Scene Description: the font is now located in the presbitery of the church
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

view of font in context - north side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

view of font in context - south side

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2014
Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 March 2014 by Mikel Unanue for BSI
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 7 April 2014)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07563ULL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción / Jasonkundeko Andre Maria eliza
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Church Location: Ullibarri Viña 01191, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off (W) the A3606, to the W of Vitoria airport, 11 km NW from the city centre
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the presbitery [not its original location]
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Ramón Ugarte and Mikel Unanue for their photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: church originally 13thC
Font Notes:
Baptismal font listed and illustrated in López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/66092] [accessed 6 August 2024]: "pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora [...] Detalle de la copa de la pila bautismal; presenta una decoración de leones rampantes y castillos alternando cobijados por arquerías de medio punto sobre es beltas columnas. En las enjutas, construcciones almenadas". Described and illustrated in Bilbao (1994) as a Romanesque baptismal font of the 13th century worthy of note for the quality of the work as well as for its state of preservation; the sides of the basin are ornamented with an arcade of round arches that contain rampant lions and three-tower fortresses (one of the sides of the basin, at the back, is rough, unfinished); there are building motifs in the spandrels of the arcade; the lower basin side is ornamented with a braid or garland of oval links that is broken at the side corresponding to the unfinished part of the basin, where, most surprisingly, a three-head protrusion appears; the underbowl is ornamented with acanthus leaves; the base is a columnar cluster; the square lower base has prominent ball motif a the angles. Bilbao (ibid.) cites entries in López de Guereñu and Portilla. The unevenness of the lines, specially those on the lower side of the basin, suggest that the carvers did not traced a preparatory sketch on the stone. The entry for this church in the Enciclopedia del románico [https://www.romanicodigital.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/files/alava_ULLIBARRI-VIÑA___URIBARRI-DIBIÑA.pdf] [accessed 6 August 2024] dates the font also in the 13th century: "Esta iglesia tiene una pila bautismal, del siglo xiii, que merece ser destacada tanto por su calidad artística como por su vistosa ornamentación y buen estado de conservación. Recientemente ha sido trasladada al presbiterio desde el angosto recinto que servía de baptisterio. Arranca la pila de un basamento, que es copia de la basa de una ancha columna, con círculos concéntricos en su parte superior y adornos de bolas sobre las lengüetas angulares. Se le superpone un pie compuesto por un núcleo central, rodeado por cuatro columnillas que sostienen la taza en forma de copa, ornamentada con una distribución en bandas regulares. La copa consta de una galería de arcos de medio pun- to apoyados sobre esbeltas columnas, con basa y capitel geométrico. En las enjutas van encajados castilletes almenados con cuatro o cinco vanos. Bajo los arcos se alternan castillos con tres torres escalonadas y puerta abierta de arco de herradura apuntado, y leones rampantes con graciosas cabezas doblegadas hacia afuera. Garbiñe Bilbao indica que en los castillos de esta pila bautismal se destaca especialmente la puerta y, lo que en principio no es sino la entrada a un recinto cerrado, toma una tendencia claramente iniciática en la iconografía cristiana, puesto que Cristo dice: “Yo soy la Puerta. El que entre por mí, se salvará”. Así, el Sacramento del bautismo libra al hombre del pecado original y con ello abre las puertas de su salvación. Por su parte, J. Javier López de Ocáriz señala que el despliegue de un carácter tan emblemático como castillos y leones, muestra la fuerza de impacto en la zona de unos gustos señoriales por la heráldica y por la atracción hacia la pujante corona castellano-leonesa, según puede documentarse en las grandes familias de la zona, como la poderosa casa de Mendoza. Aunque diferentes, ambas interpretaciones no son excluyentes e incluso podrían considerarse complementarias. La subcopa o casquete inferior se organiza como una flor abierta, de pétalos simples y nervios marcados. A ella se le superpone una estrecha banda con entrelazos de tres juncos que se abren hasta formar óvalos en su interior y se decoran con perlas en los ángulos, a ambos lados de las intersecciones. La zona posterior de la copa se ha quedado sin decorar, lo cual no resultaría extraño si no fuera porque en este espacio sobresale una protuberancia pétrea, que rompe la regularidad de la taza, y que se aprovechó para decorar con un trío de cabezas humanas siamesas muy esquemáticas. [NB: the heraldic nature of the carving and the thickness of the basin and shape of the inner bowl suggest a later date than the 13thC usually assigned to this font].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 52' 46.47" N, 2° 45' 48.94" W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: three?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, "La pila bautismal románica de Mazariegos (Burgos): una representación de la Jerusalem celeste", t. XV, 1-2, Boletín del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, 1998, pp. 197-203; p. 199
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: 2024-08-06 00:00:00. URL: www.romanicodigital.com.