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Results: 33 records
B01: sacrament - baptism - infant baptism
Scene Description: Inscription: "MAT XIX / MAR X / LV XVIII"
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B02: New Testament - Acts 9 - Peter heals Eneas and raises up Tabitha to life
Scene Description: Inscription: "ACTO IX" [Peter heals Eneas and raises up Tabitha to life]
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B03: New Testament - Acts 2
Scene Description: Inscription: "ACTO II" [Peter's sermon to the people]
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B04: New Testament - Matthew 27 - Mark 16
Scene Description: Inscription: "MAT-XXVIII / MAR-XVI-" [Resurrection of Christ]
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B05: New Testament - Matthew 3 - Mark 1 - John 1 - Luke 3
Scene Description: Inscription: "MAT-III- / MAR-I- / IO-I- / LV-III-" [Baptism of Christ]
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B06: New Testament - Acts 16
Scene Description: Inscription: "ACTO XVI-" [Paul's visits and preachings]
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LID01: New Testament - Acts 10 - Peter's vision and conversion of centurion Cornelius
Scene Description: Inscription: "ACTO X" [Cornelius received into the Church -- Peter's vision -- Baptism of Cornelius(?)]
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LID02: Old Testament - the Flood and destruction of mankind - story of Noah (Genesis 7:10 - 8:17) - Noah and the ark
Scene Description: Inscription: "GENI VI" / "ARCHA NOE"
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LID03: New Testament - John 3 - Jesus and Nicodemus
Scene Description: Inscription: "IOHA III" [Christ's discourse with Nicodemus]
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LID04: Old Testament - Ezekiel's vision of the new temple (Ezekiel 40 - 47:12) - the Temple source
Scene Description: Inscription: "HESEKIE XLVII" [The vision of the holy waters issuing out from under the temple]
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LID05: New Testament - Acts 8 - Philip baptizes the Ethiopian eunuch
Scene Description: Inscription: "ACTO VIII" [Philip baptizes the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8: 26-40]
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LID06: Old Testament - the book Exodus: story of Moses and Aaron - Moses and the crossing of the Red Sea
Scene Description: Inscription: "EXODVS XIIII" [Moses and the crossing of the Red Sea]
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - 12
Scene Description: in two rows of six, on the stem of the font; each Apostle bears an identifying symbol
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God - God the Father - holding Christ - Holy Ghost
![a 'stabat mater' like representation of the Trinity balanced on a large orb [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151031018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a 'stabat mater' like representation of the Trinity balanced on a large orb [cf. FontNotes]
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coat of arms
Scene Description: on the upper surface of the lower base -- these are probably the city and its councilors [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]
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design element - architectural - arcade - trefoiled arches - 6?
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
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design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 6
Scene Description: framing the scenes on the basin sides
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design element - motifs - knob - 6
Scene Description: finial-like on the top of the trefoil arches
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design element - motifs - moulding
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design element - patterns - ribbed
Scene Description: all around the underbowl
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design element - patterns - scalloped
Scene Description: covering the lid except for the finial and the arches
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human figure - male - standing - arms akimbo - 6
Scene Description: putto-like figures at the spandrels of the trefoiled arches
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inscription
Scene Description: showing here the date of the font [cf. Inscription Area and FontNotes]
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inscription
Scene Description: on the upper surface of the lower base -- these are probably the city and its councilors [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]
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inscription
Scene Description: below a thin moulding, all around; like those on the upper surface of the lower base, they appear to refer to those involved in the donation of the font [cf. FontNotes and InscriptionArea]
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view of church exterior - north view
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view of church exterior - northeast view
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view of church exterior in context
![a 17thC view of the Juleum, or Academia Julia, as Helmstedt's university was known [NB: the font was originally made for its church]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/0151031021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a 17thC view of the Juleum, or Academia Julia, as Helmstedt's university was known [NB: the font was originally made for its church]
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view of church exterior in context
![a present view of the Juleum, or Academia Julia, as Helmstedt's university was known; the old university who had among its professors, Giordano Bruno, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and other such luminaries, was closed in 1810 [NB: the font was originally made for its church]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1151031022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a present view of the Juleum, or Academia Julia, as Helmstedt's university was known; the old university who had among its professors, Giordano Bruno, Carl Friedrich Gauss, and other such luminaries, was closed in 1810 [NB: the font was originally made for its church]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Wolkenkratzer, 2012
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Scene Description: with the font and cover at the west end of the nave, centre aisle
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view of font and cover in context
Scene Description: sen here with the west gallery behind
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view of font cover - detail
Scene Description: detail of the scene with Moses and the Israelites crossing the Red Sea
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INFORMATION
FontID: 12546HEL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: St. Stephanikirche / Evangelisch-lutherische Kirche St. Stephani
Church Patron Saints: St. Stephen
Church Location: Großer Kirchhof 5a, D-38350 Helmstedt, Germany -- Tel.: +49 5351 40505
Country Name: Germany
Location: Braunschweig, Niedersachsen
Directions to Site: Located off the E30, 36 km E of Braunsweig, 45 km WNW of Magdeburg, 90 km E of Hanover
Ecclesiastic Region: Bistum Halberstadt
Historical Region: Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, centre aisle
Date: ca. 1590?
Century and Period: 14th - 15th century, Late Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop of Mante Pelking
Cognate Fonts: the font at Hildesheim Dom is a much earlier metal font of this type in Germany; also those at Peine and Hessisch-Oldendorf
Church Notes: original church of the Romanesque period (1125-1141) destroyed 199-1200; present church started 1230, consecrated 1300
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font made of cast brass by Mante Pelking [aka Mante Pelckinck / Mante Pelkinck], from Hildesheim; the sides of the basin are decorated with six scriptural scenes in panels framed by moulded columns, each scene annotated with a reference to the appropriate biblical source: : 1)infant baptism; 2)Peter heals Eneas and raises up Tabitha to life; 3)Peter's sermon; 4)Resurrection of Christ; 5)Baptism of Christ; 6)Paul's visits and preaching; underbowl decorated with a ribbed pattern; the round stem of the base is divided into two parts by a protruding moulding bearing an inscription on the sides, all around, bearing on it the date of the font; above and below two rows of Apostles, six in each, carrying their identifying symbols; wide circular lower base has upper surface patterned with inscriptions and coats of arms related to Town Hall and its councillors responsible for the donation of the font [NB: the font was originally donated to the Universitätskirche, Helmstedt]; there is a thin moulding at the angle and a runing inscription on the side below it; like the inscription above this one appears to related to the town and its authorities; the whole rests on a stone plinth. The font cover is also made of brass and has six biblical scenes inscribed in trefoil arch-heads above a band of frilly open-work on the domed lower volume; the scenes include: 1)Peter's vision and conversion of centurion Cornelius; 2)Noah's ark and the Flood; 3)Jesus and Nicodemus; 4)the water source in the Temple; 5)Philip baptizes the Ethiopian eunuch; 6)Moses crossing the Red Sea; in the spandrels of the arcade stand six putto-like human figures with arms akimbo, the lower part of their bodies in the shape of a leaf; atop each arch is a pointed acorn motif; a baluster-shaped moulded pedestal stands on the dome; the top volume is a scene of the Trinity in which God the Father, wearing a prophet's hat, holds in his arms a wounded Christ who has the avian Holy Ghost standing on his head; they all appear to stand on a large orb in an odd balancing act. The hook-up to the pulley is just above God the Father's hat. The cover itself is suspended by a chain in the vault floor and there balanced by a counterweight for raising it.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.225808, 11.012785
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 13′ 32.91″ N, 11° 0′ 46.03″ E
UTM: 32U 637475 5788063
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, brass
Font Shape: round (mounted) -- chalice shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: Bible references accompany each scene; others as indicated above
Inscription Text: Font cover:
1. "ACTO X"
2. "GENI VII" / "ARCHA NOE"
3. "IOHA III"
4. "HESEKIE XLVII"
5. "ACTO VIII"
6. "EXODVS XIIII"
Basin side:
1. "MAT XIX / MAR X / LV-XVIII"
2. "ACTO IX"
3. ACTO II"
4. MAT-XXVIII / MAR-XVI"
5. "MAT-III- / MAR-I- / IO-I- / LV-III-"
6. "ACTO XVI"
on the stem:
"[...] ANNO DOMINI 1590 [...]"
on the lower base:
"[...] WAPEN - LVDEKE BRANDES B - HEINRICH [...]"
Inscription Source: [cf. Images Area]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1590?
Material: metal, brass
Apparatus: yes; pulley and counterweight
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]