Erfurt No. 1
Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2013
Image and permission received (e-mail of 30 September 2013)
Results: 17 records
B01: inscription
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
BBU01: design element - motifs - lozenge - 8
Scene Description: one on each side of the upper basin side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
BF01: virtues and vices - seven virtues
Scene Description: seven angels on seven sides of the basin; each holds the symbol of the virtue: a chalice, an infant and an apple, a sword, etc.
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
BF02: human figure - demi-figure - 8
Scene Description: at the angles, between the angel figures, resembling the mascarons on ships
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
BH01: head - grotesque or fantastic - 8
Scene Description: one at each angle of the upper rim side, looking down
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
LB01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - 4 (symbols)
![alternating with the smaller [child?] figures](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1050403021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: alternating with the smaller [child?] figures
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
LB02: symbol - shell - 4
Scene Description: behind each Evangelist's symbol, a background with shell and scroll motif
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
LBF01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - sitting - with book - 4
Scene Description: between them, the symbol of each Evangelist
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
view of canopy, baldachin - detail
Scene Description: lower part with columns and cuppola
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
view of canopy, baldachin - detail
Scene Description: cuppola section of the baldaquin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
view of canopy, baldachin - detail
Scene Description: upper part of the baldaquin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 23 September 2007 by Thuringius [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Erfurt_cathedral_and_severi_church.jpg] [accessed 5 October 2013]
Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain
view of church interior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 30 September 2013)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 30 September 2013)
view of font and canopy, baldachin - canopy
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Hinson, 2013
Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 July 2013 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 30 September 2013)
view of font and canopy, baldachin in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Tom Heck, 2003
Image Source: Anne & Tom Heck (Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright Instructions: Photograph and permission received (letter of 22 February 2003)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10789ERF
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Dom Sankt Marien / Mariendom / Propsteikirche Beatae Mariae Virginis
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Domstufen 1, 99084 Erfurt, Germany -- Tel.: +49 361 576960
Country Name: Germany
Location: Erfurt, Thüringen
Directions to Site: Located 100 km SW of Leipzig, 180 km SE of Hannover
Font Location in Church: Inside the cathedral church
Date: 1587
Century and Period: 16th century(late), Early Baroque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Hans Friedemann (the elder)
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Tom Heck, of Santa Barbara, USA, and to Colin Smith, for the photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the late 16th century (1587) in the Baroque style, the work of Hans Fiedemann, the Elder; the font consists of an octagonal basin with a protruding upper rim decorated with mouldings and grotesque heads, the rounded sides and underbowl decorated with two sets of figures: at the angles demi-figures akin to the mascarons found on the prow of ships, whereas an angel holding a liturgical symbol protrudes from each of seven sides, the symbols of the seven virtues; between the figures runs a painted inscription with the names of the seven virtues in Latin on seven of the sides; the initial virtue, SPES, is preceded by the date 1587 in Arabic numerals; all the figures are set on a background of shallow foliage or scroll pattern; the front side has an angel holding a shield painted with a Latin cross with the initials S and P to the sides of the cross mast; the octagonal base has eight niches adorned with the same scroll pattern as the basin sides and topped with large shell motifs; four seated figures (they might be the Evangelists provided with books) stand out prominently; smaller figures populate the four alternate sides, the one at the front is a child holding a shield that is now blank but may have been painted originally. The whole font is painted. The octagonal wooden font cover has its eight panels decorated with the same scroll pattern seen elsewhere on the font; raised arrises; avian finial. A tall baldaquin houses font and cover; it has painted inscriptions at two levels [text not available].
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: painted inscription
Inscription Location: on the side of the basin, just above the figures (and between their heads)
Inscription Text: "1587 : SPES / FIDES / CARITAS / IVSTITIA / PRVDENTIA / TEMPERANTIA / FORTITVDO" [NB: order may be altered]
Inscription Source: Image area
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1587 / Baroque
Notes: [cf. FontNotes and Image area]