Escalarre No. 4 / Santa Maria d'Aneu / Anheu

Image copyright © Fons Arxiu Gavin, [1979?]

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Results: 12 records

Apostle or saint - Apostles? - 12

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fons Arxiu Gavin, [1979?]

Image Source: digital image of a ca.1979 (?) B&W photograph [4408] Fons Arxiu Gavin [http://arxiudimatges.aneu.cat/fitxaimatge?id=4408] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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design element - motifs - roll moulding - parallel - 2

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fons Arxiu Gavin, [1979?]

Image Source: digital image of a ca.1979 (?) B&W photograph [4408] Fons Arxiu Gavin [http://arxiudimatges.aneu.cat/fitxaimatge?id=4408] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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design element - motifs - zoomorphic?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fons Arxiu Gavin, [1979?]

Image Source: digital image of a ca.1979 (?) B&W photograph [4408] Fons Arxiu Gavin [http://arxiudimatges.aneu.cat/fitxaimatge?id=4408] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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design element - patterns - torsade

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fons Arxiu Gavin, [1979?]

Image Source: digital image of a ca.1979 (?) B&W photograph [4408] Fons Arxiu Gavin [http://arxiudimatges.aneu.cat/fitxaimatge?id=4408] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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view of church exterior - northwest end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 March 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esterri_d'Àneu,_Santa_Maria-PM_26034.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast end

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 March 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esterri_d'Àneu,_Santa_Maria-PM_26033.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Cruccone, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 August 2012 by Cruccone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Escalarre_esglesia_SMaria_dAneu_absis_2.JPG] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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view of church exterior in context

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 March 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esterri_d'Àneu,_Santa_Maria-PM_26041.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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view of church exterior in context - northeast view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © PMRMaeyaert, 2009

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 24 March 2009 by PMRMaeyaert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esterri_d'Àneu,_Santa_Maria-PM_26040.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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view of church interior - apse - painting

Scene Description: the original painting, now at the MNAC, Barcelona, Spain

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, 2015

Image Source: digital photograph taken 5 June 2015 by Emilio J. Rodríguez-Posada, in the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya [www.flickr.com/photos/96396586@N07/20691995801] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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view of church interior - apse - painting - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Fresc. Absis de Santa Maria d'Àneu (detall). Cercle del Mestre de Pedret. La decoració de l’absis de Santa Maria d’Àneu és una mostra de la superposició de temes i motius de l’Antic i del Nou Testament a la pintura romànica catalana. A la volta hi ha representada l’Epifania, amb Maria en Majestat i els Mags. Al registre inferior, apareixen els dos serafins de la visió d’Isaïes al temple de Jerusalem (Is 6,3-6) que canten «S(AN)C(TU)S S(AN)C(TU)S S(AN)C(TU)S» i apropen les tenalles amb brases ardents als llavis dels profetes Elies i Isaïes. Al mig, les quatre rodes de foc del carro de Jahvè al·ludeixen a la visió d’Ezequiel (Ez 1,15). Cal subratllar també el protagonisme dels tres arcàngels, Miquel, Gabriel i Rafael, advocats el dia del Judici Final. Aquesta original temàtica troba la seves fonts en repertoris bizantinitzants d’Itàlia."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 July 2012 by amadalvarez in the MNAC [accession no. 015874] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StaMaria_Aneu_MNAC-015874_0006.jpg] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arnaucc, 2012

Image Source: digital photograph taken 11 August 2012 by Arnaucc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Santa_Maria_d'Àneu_(interior)_3.JPG] [accessed 3 August 2018]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 08100ESC
Church/Chapel: Monasterio de Santa Maria d'Aneu
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Escalarre, 25588 La Guingueta d'Aneu, Lérida / Lleida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of La Guingueta d'Aneu, in the Pallars Sobirà (at Esterri d'Aneu take a road known as Carrer Unica, which runs S on the E side of the Noguera Pallares river; less than 1 km down the Carrer the road btanches off; take the right path; it leads directly to the monastery
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Urgel / Urgell
Historical Region: Pallars Sobirà
Font Location in Church: Inside the church?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque
Church Notes: Benedictine monastery first documented 839, but may have been an earlier Visigothic one; became Augustinian in 1216; present fabric chiefly 11thC; renovated 20thC
Celina Llarás Usón, in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 99) states that this font appears to have been made recently ["la de Santa Maria d'Anneu sembla feta no fa gaires anys"]. Described in the Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya (1995, v. 12: 106) as an ancient stone baptismal font ornamented with human figures in high relief. Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005) write of a holy-water stoup [not a font] of the Romanesque period decorated with the twelve Apostles, and suggest that the piece is not Spanish, but rather from the French side of the diocese of Cominges and dated in the 12th century. A B&W photograph of this stoup may be accessed [but not downloaded unless one pays 70 euros for the rights] on the web site of the Arxiu d'imatges of the Consell Cultural de les Valles d'Aneu [http://arxiudimatges.aneu.cat/fitxaimatge?id=4408]; the original photograph is from the Josep M. Gavin archive, where it is described as "Beneitera amb decoració esculpida de Santa Maria d'Àneu". The stoup consists of a roughly hemispherical basin with protruding figures standing all around; raised on a cylindrical stem decorated with torsade pattern; the lower base is round-to-square, with two roll mouldings atop, and sculpted animals (?), etc, below; this area appears damaged.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.62, 1.13
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 37′ 12″ N, 1° 7′ 48″ E
UTM: 31T 346641 4720313

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya, Barcelona: Fundaciò Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1982-1985
Cabestany i Fort, Joan-F., El romànic de la vall d'Àneu, Barcelona: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, 2005
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-