Oplinter No. 1
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Results: 12 records
BH01: cleric - head tonsured
Scene Description: the tonsure is only visible in the illustration that shows the basin top
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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BH02: human figure - female - head - wearing headdress and wimple
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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BH03: human figure - male - head - long hair - with moustache
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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BH04: human figure - male - head - wearing cap
Scene Description: clean-faced
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind
Scene Description: a simplified or stylised arcade; the arch-heads are irregular (some rounded, some almost flat), the supports Y-shaped without proper capiatsl or bases, making the whole look like a row on niches between the four protruding heads
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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design element - motifs - vine - acanthus?
Scene Description: all around the opening of the inner basin -- notice the damage at opposite ends and the additional drilled holes, all related to the anchoring of old font covers -- notice also the tonsure on the head at the back, right side
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ghislain, 2009
Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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view of basin
Scene Description: as displayed in the Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille [inventory no. LAP 2]
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Image Source: B&W photograph in Ghislain (2009)
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view of church exterior - northwest view
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1943 by the Commissariaat Generaal voor 's Lands Wederopbouw [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B051701]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
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Image Source: B&W photograph taken 1943 by the Commissariaat Generaal voor 's Lands Wederopbouw [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B051702]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: B&W undated photograph by K.C.M.L. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B035017]
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
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Image Source: B&W undated photograph [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché B051718]
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view of church interior - retable
![the 1530 [unknown master from Antwerp] retable from Sint-Genovena kerk, now in the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150410022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the 1530 [unknown master from Antwerp] retable from Sint-Genovena kerk, now in the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels
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Image Source: photograph taken in 1993 by Christine Valkenberg, I.R.P.A. [KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium), cliché G003932]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 11609OPL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 18 Rue de Valmy, 59000 Lille, France
Church/Chapel: Sint-Genoveva parochiekerk
Church Patron Saints: St. Genevieve [aka Genofeva, Genoveva]
Country Name: Belgium
Location: Vlaams-Brabant / Bravant Flamand, Vlaanderen / Flandres
Directions to Site: Oplinter is located in the municipality of Tirlemont/Tienen, near Louvain
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Liège
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: ca. 1225-1250? [Ghislain]
Century and Period: 13th century (early?), Early Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Namur font? / affiliation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz [Ghislain]
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: Famous 16th-century retable originally from this church, now in the Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire de Bruxelles [detailed photographs of the retable can be accessed at the BALaT site http://balat.kikirpa.be/photo.php?path=G003932&objnr=20008844&nr=1 [accessed 10 April 2015]]
Font Notes:
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Noted in Zimmermann (1954) and Ghislain (1986). Catalogued and illustrated in Ghislain (2009) as a baptismal font of the Namurois group, filiation de Saint-Séverin-en-Condroz, made of a " Calcaire carbonifère, gris à gros grain, de l'étage viséen de la vallée de la Meuse (Tollenaere, p. 292, analyse par Mhr G. Delépine)", and dated ca. 1225-1250, a derivative work which Ghislain (ibid.) describes as "un pastiche gothique d'aprés un meuble dont on souhaitait conserver l'aspect général", the late date of which is reinforced by the individualisation of the three heads and the presence of a female wearing local head gear of the early-13th century; the three male heads are: 1)hairless with peasant cap; 2)long-haired, bearded and mustachoed; 3)very curly hair with tonsure [a cleric?]. The basin was originally raised on a broad central shaft and four angle colonnettes, but the whole base is missing.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (calcaire de Meuse)
Number of Pieces: fragment
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Diameter (inside rim): 63.5 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 86.5 cm*
Basin Depth: 29 cm*
Basin Total Height: 39 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Ghislain (2009: 175)
REFERENCES
Ghislain, Jean-Claude, "La cuve baptismale romane de Wauthier-Braine", VII, Annales du Cercle historique et folklorique de Braine-le-Château, Tubize et des Régions voisines, 1986, pp. 89-[120]; p. 105 fn40
Ghislain, Jean-Claude, Les fonts baptismaux romans en pierre bleue des ateliers du Namurois (ca. 1150-1175), Namur: Musée provincial des arts anciens du Namurois, 2009
Kelly, Kelly's Directory of the counties of Derby, Notts., Leicester and Rutland, London: Kelly's Directories Ltd., 1891