Laguardia No. 2
Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
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Results: 15 records
B01: angel - cherub
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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B02: animal - bird
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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B03: coat of arms - cardinal? or episcopal?
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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B04: angel - cherub
Scene Description: appears to have a tiny avian body
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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B05: human figure - head - 2
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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B06: animal - mammal - simian - monkey - 2
Scene Description: crouching, above the human heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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B07: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: all around the upper rim and the sides
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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CR01: design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Macu Fernández, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Macu Fernandez
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view of church exterior - south portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Portada sur o de los abuelos. Portada gótica, segundo tercio del siglo XIII, que conserva un interesante conjunto escultórico."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jl FilpoC, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 8 November 2021 by Jl FilpoC [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portada_de_la_Iglesia_de_San_Juan,_Laguardia.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2023]
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: a Romanesque Annunciation
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Macu Fernández, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Macu Fernandez
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view of church exterior - south portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "San Juan Laguardia. Detalle"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gato.cuantico, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 25 August 2011 by Gato.cuantico [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Juan_Laguardia_3.jpg] [accessed 20 August 2023]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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view of font - upper view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Mikel Unanue, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 20 July 2009 by Mikel Unanue
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INFORMATION
FontID: 07597LAG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Church Location: Pl. San Juan 2-4, 01300 Laguardia, Alava, Spain -- Tel.: +34 945 600 845 [Oficina de Turismo]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the A124, 45 km SSE of Vitoria (dir. Logroño)
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th - 16th century, Plateresque (Plateresco)
Workshop/Group/Artisan: heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: Another such at the church of Santa María de los Reyes, in he same town
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Macu Fernandez and Mikel Unanue for their photographs of church and font
Church Notes: Noteworthy Romanesque South portal with Annunciation scene; mid-16th century choir stalls by Nicholas von Harlem and Esteban Bertin; late 17th-century Baroque altar by Francisco Jiménez; etc.
Font Notes:
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Described in Arriola Loyola (1996) as a baptismal font of the 16th century in the Platesque [Spanish Renaissance] style. Described and illustrated in Bilbao (35 and fig. 12) as a baptismal font of the 15th-16th century with ornamentation of grotesque ["grutesco"] motifs [NB: later in the same source (ibid.: 96), Bilbao dates the two fonts at Laguardia to the 14th century ["su temprana cronología, el siglo XIV"]; the hemispherical basin has a rope moulding at the upper rim and it is divided into five sections or panels by vertical rope mouldings stemming from the upper rim; at the leftmost side is a cherub; in the next panel is a bird that appears to be drinking from a fountain (?); the centre panel has a coat of arms bearing cardinal or episcopal arms; the next panel to the rightn the centre has a large putto-like cherub and other high-relief motifs; the rightmost has two facing monkeys (?) above two human heads; the back of the basin has been built into the wall [NB: in her later work (1996) Bilbao dates this font and the one at Santa Maria, also in Laguardia, to the 16th century ["ambas de la primera mitad del siglio XVI"]; in the same note Bilbao states that the episcopal coat of arms establishes a relationship with the sponsor of the font [the same shield appears on the the font at Santa Maria in the same town]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.552673, -2.584497
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 33′ 9.62″ N, 2° 35′ 4.19″ W
UTM: 30T 534112 4711225
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 18 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 94 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 130 cm*
Basin Depth: 48 cm*
Basin Total Height: 69 cm [calculated]
Height of Base: 40 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 109 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [measurements courtesy of Mikel Unanue]
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, 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