Yapeyu / Yapeyú

Results: 2 records

INFORMATION

Font ID: 11346YAP
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1626?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th century, Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Iglesia de la Misión de Nuestra Señora de los Tres Reyes Magos de Yapeyú
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Obispo Romero 400-498, W3231 Yapeyú, Corrientes, Argentina
Site Location: Corrientes, Corrientes, Argentina, South America
Directions to Site: Located on the W bank of the River Uruguay, near the mouth of Guaviravi, at the Brazil-Uruguay-Argentina border
Additional Comments: destroyed font? / buried font? / damaged font / fragment
Font Notes:
Baldotto & Paolillo (2004) report a stone baptismal font [="un battistero di pietra"] in the old church of the mission at Nuestra Señora de Yapeyú, then in the Provincia del Paraguay [part of Argentina now]; the same source notes that the church and all its furnishings were destroyed as a result of the Portuguese invasion of 1817. Bollini (2009), though, informs that in the excavations carried out in the 1970s a number of objects where unearthed, among which a large fragment of the basin of the baptismal font, which he illustrates: the fragment appears to correspond to the underbowl of a hemispherical basin and is decorated with large ribs below thick mouldings; most of the sides proper are missing. The location of the fragment is given as the "museo sanmartiniano y en el complejo 'Guillermo Furlong'".

COORDINATES

UTM: 21J 517714 6739804
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): -29.47111, -56.8173
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 29° 28′ 16″ S, 56° 49′ 2.28″ W

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: hemispheric?
Basin Interior Shape: round?
Basin Exterior Shape: ro?

REFERENCES

  • Baldotto, Gianni, Il Barocco nelle Missioni Guaranì: Provincia del Paraguay, 1609-1768, Biadene, Treviso: [Il Autore], 2004, p. 144
  • Bollini, Horacio, Misiones jesuíticas: visión artística y patrimonial: voces y emblemas en las reducciones jesuítico-guaraníes (1609-1768), Buenos Aires: Corregidor, 2009, p. 256 and ill. on p. 252