Madrid No. 8
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Results: 16 records
B01: design element - motifs - foliage - scroll circle
Scene Description: several of these around the basin side, each containing an animal, plant or scene
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B02: design element - motifs - moulding - triple
Scene Description: two bands of thin triple moulding frame the inhabited circles around the middle of the basin
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B03: animal - bird?
Scene Description: bird or fabulous animal in one of the circles
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B04: animal - bird? - foliage
Scene Description: a bird or winged fabulous animal appears to be picking at foliage
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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
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BBU01: design element - motifs - foliage scroll
Scene Description: between the animal heads, around the upper basin side
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BH01: animal - head - 4
Scene Description: perhaps: bear, dog, sheep (?), feline
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BU01: design element - motifs - foliage - palmette?
Scene Description: very stylised, around the underbowl
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LB01: design element - motifs - scroll - circle
Scene Description: well-executed circle scrolls of foliage that contain chircfly animals inside, and with foliage or floral motifs in the resulting spandrels
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LB02: design element - motifs - floral or foliage
Scene Description: in the spandrels of the circles
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LB03: animal - in a circle
Scene Description: probably lions, eagles, etc., in the foliage circles down the stem of the base
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view of font
Scene Description: as displayed in the museum [MNA]
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: note the repair staples and the crack lines
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view of basin
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view of base
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inscription
Scene Description: museum label (!)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 11260MAD
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (late), Romanesque
Museum: Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid
Church / Chapel Name: [origin unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] C. de Serrano, 13, Salamanca, 28001 Madrid, Spain -- Tel.: +34 915 77 79 12
Site Location: Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain, Europe
Font Notes:
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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.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30T 441615 4474964
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 40.423259, -3.688256
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 40° 25′ 23.73″ N, 3° 41′ 17.72″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, dolomitic stone