Vidaurre / Bidaurre

Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

Results: 13 records

Click to view images and/or subjects

B01: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 8

Scene Description: each with a human figure in it

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

B02: human figure - artisan - musician - musical instrument - wind instrument - horn

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

B03: human figure - artisan - musician - musical instrument - percussion instrument - tambourine or drum

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

B04: human figure - female - holding child

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain; detail of a photograph [ca. 1992]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

B05: human figure - with object (palmette?)

B06: human figure - hand raised - dancer?

B07: human figure - arms akimbo - dancer?

B08: human figure - male - with sword in the right arm - left arm to the waist

B09: human figure - male - with spear in the right arm - left arm to the waist

Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

P01: design element - motifs - ball - 4

Scene Description: one on each corner

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

view of font

Image Source: Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier (Pamplona, Spain)

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

view of font and cover

Image Source: Photograph [ca. 1943], Institución Príncipe de Viana, Archivo Uranga

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (file letter of June 2001)

INFORMATION

FontID: 08035VID

Church/Chapel: Iglesia Parroquial de Santa Catalina

Church Patron Saints: St. Catherine of Alexandria [aka Katherine, Katharine]

Church Location: Calle Mayor, 12, 31176 Vidaurre, Navarra, Spain -- Tel.: +34 948 54 22 28

Country Name: Spain

Location: Navarra, Comunidad Foral de Navarra

Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of Guesálaz, Merindad de Estella

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, beneath the gallery

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Font at Eguiarreta (Navarra)

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the Institución Príncipe de Viana and photographers Larrión & Pimoulier, of Pamplona, Spain, for the images of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Described and illustrated in the Catálogo Monumental de Navarra (1990?-, vol. II**: 131 and pl. 143) and in Domeño (1992: 80-82, 182 and pl. 105-107); medieval baptismal font with an iconographic program quite similar to the one at Eguiarreta, also in Navarra; the basin sides are ornamented with an arcade of eight round arches, each with a figure in it: 1)horn player; 2)drum or tambourine player; 3)woman and child; 4)human figure carrying palmette-shaped object; 5)human figure with raised hand -- dancer?; 6)human figure with arm(s) akimbo -- dancer?; 7)human figure armed with sword, left hand on the waist; 8)human figure armed with a spear. Domeño (ibid.) suggests the program may be a celebration of a baptism [="celebración festiva relacionada con el Bautismo"], an explanation repeated by Bilbao (1996: 246 fn375). The base is a plain cylindrical pedestal with a large roll moulding at the top and a s square lower base/plinth decorated with a ball at each corner. Noted in Plazaola Artola (2008?).

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.777264, -1.912986

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 46′ 38.15″ N, 1° 54′ 46.75″ W

UTM: 30T 588920 4736654

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Iconografía de las pilas bautismales del románico castellano: Burgos y Palencia, Burgos: Editorial La Olmeda, S.L., 1996

Domeño Martínez de Morentín, Asunción, Pilas bautismales medievales en Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, 1992

García Gainza, María Concepción, Catálogo monumental de Navarra, Pamplona: Gobierno de Navarra, Arzobispado de Navarra, Universidad de Navarra, [1990?]

Navallas Rebolé, A., Navarra, guía y mapa, 1986

Plazaola Artola, Juan, "El arte gótico en Euskal Herria", hiru.com [Etengabeko Ikaskuntza], [2008?]