Arreu No. 1 / Sant Serni d'Arreu

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B01: animal - bird - at a plant? or tree? - 2

perhaps a water jet? This could be the ubiquitus two-dove motif common in medieval art, whether drinking at a fountain or at either side of a tree
Scene Description: perhaps a water jet? This could be the ubiquitus two-dove motif common in medieval art, whether drinking at a fountain or at either side of a tree

INFORMATION

FontID: 08207ARR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Església de Sant Serni [aka Sadurni]
Church Patron Saints: St. Saturninus of Toulouse [aka Saturnin, Sernin, Sirnin]
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located just SW of Boren, in the municipality of Alt Aneu, in the NW area of the Pallars Sobirà, near the border with the Val d'Aran, off the road that leads from Esterri d'Aneu [Coordinates: 01 04' 24" 42 39' 50"]
Historical Region: Valle de Aran / Vall d'Aran
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, half-built into the wall
Century and Period: 12th - 16th century, Medieval
Cognate Fonts: Some of the ornamentation resembles one of the fonts at Sorpe, also in this area of Catalonia
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Catalunya romànica (1984- , vol. XV: 140-141) as one of three medieval baptismal objects in this church. Described in Cabestany, Matas & Palau (2005) with date in the late 12th or early 13th century. This baptismal font consists of a decorated hemispherical basin and a plain cylindrical base. The large basin is half-built into the wall, which leaves only about 2/3 of its surface visible; this is ornamented with a pair of large birds facing what appears to be a plant or tree, although the source above suggests the possibility that it could be a jet of water, and mentions some resemblance of this motif with another on one of the fonts at Sorpe, located in the same general area.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

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-