Madrid No. 8

Results: 16 records

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage - scroll circle

Scene Description: several of these around the basin side, each containing an animal, plant or scene

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B02: design element - motifs - moulding - triple

Scene Description: two bands of thin triple moulding frame the inhabited circles around the middle of the basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B03: animal - bird?

Scene Description: bird or fabulous animal in one of the circles

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B04: animal - bird? - foliage

Scene Description: a bird or winged fabulous animal appears to be picking at foliage

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

B05: animal - fighting - 2

Scene Description: zoomachia scene: lion or dog attacked by eagle (?) or other bird of prey (?): the bird's beak appears to have teeth

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage scroll

Scene Description: between the animal heads, around the upper basin side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

BH01: animal - head - 4

Scene Description: perhaps: bear, dog, sheep (?), feline

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

BU01: design element - motifs - foliage - palmette?

Scene Description: very stylised, around the underbowl

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

LB01: design element - motifs - scroll - circle

well-executed circle scrolls of foliage that contain chircfly animals inside, and with foliage or floral motifs in the resulting spandrels

Scene Description: well-executed circle scrolls of foliage that contain chircfly animals inside, and with foliage or floral motifs in the resulting spandrels

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

LB02: design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the circles

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

LB03: animal - in a circle

Scene Description: probably lions, eagles, etc., in the foliage circles down the stem of the base

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

inscription

Scene Description: museum label (!)

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of base

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: note the repair staples and the crack lines

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in the museum [MNA]

Image Source: BSI - Photographed July 5, 2005

INFORMATION

FontID: 11260MAD

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

Church/Chapel: [origin unknown]

Country Name: Spain

Location: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid

Font Location in Church: [in a museum]

Century and Period: 11th century (late), Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view

The MNA's description refers to this object as a baptismal font of the last quarter of the 11th century, Romanesque style, made of dolomitic stone [= "último cuarto del siglo XII. Piedra dolomítica [...] Estilo románico [...]" It consists of two pieces: the basin is roughly cylindrical with a rounded underbowl, and has four large protruding animal heads on the upper sides at 90-degree angles; the heads appear to be: bear, dog, sheep and feline; between the heads runs a band of foliage scroll; there are two bands of parallel triple moulding defining the middle of the basin, the space between them filled with several foliage scroll circles each of which contains a plant (?), an animal or fabulous animal, and one of them a zoomachia scene between an eagle (?) and a quadruped, perhaps a lion; the spandrels formed by the circles are filled with varied floral or foliage motifs; the underbowl has a band of foliage or palmette motif, very stylised, almost Arabic in design; the ornamentation of the cylindrical pedestal base is similar, most of the circles there filled with animals or fabulous animals. The inner well of the basin does not seem to have a drain, but it may have been blocked.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, dolomitic stone