Zurbano / Zurbao
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permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue {e-mail of 7 April 2011)
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LB01: design element - patterns - torsade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Belen Guerrikabeitia, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Belen Guerrikabeitia
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LB02: design element - motifs - moulding - parallel - 2
Scene Description: with torsade pattern in between
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Belen Guerrikabeitia, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Belen Guerrikabeitia
Copyright Instructions: permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue {e-mail of 7 April 2011)
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Scene Description: notice the metal brace around the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Belen Guerrikabeitia, 2011
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken by Belen Guerrikabeitia
Copyright Instructions: permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue {e-mail of 7 April 2011)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Belen Guerrikabeitia, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken by Belen Guerrikabeitia
Copyright Instructions: permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue {e-mail of 7 April 2011)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07594ZUR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Esteban
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 16th - 17th century, Renaissance
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Belen Guerrikabeitia for her photograph of this font
Font Notes:
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Described in Bilbao (1994) as a baptismal font of the Renaissance period, with strong Gothic influence of the Gothic; the large basin is plain; the base is ornamented with torsade columns; the lower base has two large roll mouldings framing the torsade pattern. Bilbao (ibid.) cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. The large basin has a metal brace around the upper side; the font is raised on a two-step circular plinth.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (,ounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
REFERENCES
Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994