Granon / Grañón
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Results: 7 records
B01:
design element - motifs - vine
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BBL01:
inscription
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BU01:
design element - patterns - ribbed
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LB01:
design element - motifs - leaf or spur - 4
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UB01:
human figure - male - head - bearded - 4
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UB02:
design element - patterns - torsade
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Julia Guerra, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 21 August 2009 by Julia Guerra
Copyright Instructions: received via Mikel Unanue (AdelR)
INFORMATION
FontID: 07751GRA
Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de San Juan Bautista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Spain
Location: Logroño, La Rioja
Directions to Site: Located on the N-120, 7 km W of Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 53 km from Logroño
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the S side, W end of the nave
Date: 1199
Century and Period: 12th century (late), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Oja-Tirón workshop
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Julia Guerra for her photograph of this font
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]
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 Notes: the date is of the 'Era', equivalent to 1199 AD [cf. FontNotes]
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 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
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
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
