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human figure - male - head - bearded - 4
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design element - patterns - torsade
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design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julia Guerra, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Julia Guerra
Copyright Instructions: received via Mikel Unanue (AdelR)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 07751GRA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1199
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Oja-Tirón workshop
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the S side, W end of the nave
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Address: Pl. de la Iglesia, 26259 Grañón, La Rioja, Spain -- Tel.: +34 941 42 00 81
Site Location: Logroño, La Rioja, Spain, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the LR-308, S of the N-120, 7 km W of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 53 km W of Logroño
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño
Font Notes:
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Listed in Bilbao (1996). Described and illustrated in Sáenz Rodríguez (2004) as the chef-d'oeuvre of a workshop hypothetically located in Santo Domingo de la Calzada or its surroundings towards the end of the 12th century. Bilbao cites J.G. Moya Valgañón et al.'s Inventario... as source In the Enciclopedia del románico en La Rioja (2008). Baptismal font dated by an inscription ["ERA MCCXXXVII"] to A.D. 1199. The font is of a design common to the local workshop probably based at Santo Domingo de la Calzada, and of the type related with the Oja workshops: roughly hemispherical basin, the sides decorated with a vegetal vine, the underbowl with a ribbed pattern of broad ribs; the usual cylindrical stem is enhanced in this case with four bearded heads towards the upper part; the lower base round-to-square; it is unusual in that it bears an inscription on the basin side, right under the vegetal decoration. The Enciclopedia... (ibid.) notes that similar inscriptions are found on the fonts at Grañón and Santurde, in Rioja, and those at Barbadillo de Herrera [sic], Eterna and Fresnedo de la Sierra [sic], in Burgos province. [i.e., Fresneda de la Sierra Tiron and Barbadillo de los Herreros]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julia Guerra for her photograph of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 497791 4699791
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.450444, -3.026861
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 27′ 1.6″ N, 3° 1′ 36.7″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
Diameter (includes rim): 128 cm*
Basin Total Height: 47 cm*
Height of Base: 65 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 112 cm*
Square Base Dimensions: 56 x 62 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [Sáenz Rodríguez (2004)]
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Location: around the basin side
Inscription Text: "MATRIS PECATU[m] NOBIS AB ORIGINE NATUM HOC EST ABLATU[m] PENITUS Q[uo]Q[ue] FONTE FUGATU[m] HOC FONT LAVETUR. QUI VIVI[t] VIVIFICETUR V[itius] E[st] SACRI MUNDATIO PLENA LAVACRI QUOD Q[ui] RENUERIT [filius erit]. E[ra] MCCXXXVII. +"
Inscription Notes: the date is of the 'Era', equivalent to 1199 AD [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Source: Sáenz Rodríguez (2004)
REFERENCES
- Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996, p. 95 fn85
- Fundación Santa María la Real, Enciclopedia del románico en la Rioja, Aguilar de Campoo: Fundación Santa María la Real, Centro de Estudios del Románico, 2008, vol. 1: 340
- Sáenz Rodríguez, Minerva, "Las pilas bautismales del arte románico en la Rioja", Arte medieval en la Rioja: prerrománico y románico. VIII Jornadas de arte y patrimonio regional, Logroño: Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 2004, p. 262-264