Bianya No. 2

Results: 7 records

B01: design element - motifs - circle - linked circles

Scene Description: with foliage motifs/symbols inside

B02: design element - motifs - leaf - in a circle

Scene Description: in several of the linked circles

B03: design element - motifs - palmette - in a circle

Scene Description: in some of the linked circles

BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels formed by the linked circles

BU01: human figure - grotesque or fantastic - head

Scene Description: being devoured by two monsters; the mouth of the figure is the side-drain hole

BU02: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - devouring human - 2

Scene Description: the source suggests possibly dragons

CR01: design element - motifs - roll moulding

Scene Description: almost disappeared in some parts

INFORMATION

FontID: 08163BIA
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Salvador
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour
Country Name: Spain
Location: Gerona / Girona, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located in the municipality of La Val de Bianya, about 14 km from Olot, on the road between Sant Joan les Fonts and Sant Pau de Seguries
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Romanesque
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- ): marble holy-water stoup of the late 12th century showing external, rather than local, influence in its decoration; the basin is roughly bucket-shaped but slightly rounded, with a roll moulding at the bottom where it meets the plain cylindrical stem of the base; the sides of the basin are ornamented at three levels: at the centre, and occupying most of the basin sides, is a band of linked circles resembling braided twigs; inside the circles are leaf motifs, some of them palmettes; the upper spandrels created by the linked circles are populated with leaf motifs; the lower part of the basin, that which corresponds to the underbowl, has a scene involving three biengs: two fabulous animals, perhaps dragons, devouring a grotesque human head; the mouth of this head is actually the side drain of the basin. [cf. Index entry for Bianya No. 1 for a well-rendered Romanesque font in the same church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: [cf. Font notes]
Rim Thickness: 5.5 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 26 cm
Diameter (includes rim): 37 cm
Basin Total Height: 30 cm
Notes on Measurements: Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. IV: 393)

REFERENCES

La Garrotxa: els pobles medievals de Girona, Barcelona: March Editor, 2005
Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-