Levoca / Leutschau / Levoča
Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
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Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion - Mary - John the Evangelist
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
Old Testament - prophets - busts of prophets - holding scrolls
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: a row of tiny varied flowers all around, below the vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a number of them, all around, framing a variety of motifs
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: a variety of motifs arranged on bands between thin mouldings, all around the base; the appear too worn for identification
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
design element - motifs - vine
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
design element - motifs - vine
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: with a few human busts or demi-figures
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
design element - motifs - vine
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
human figure - demi-figure or bust
Scene Description: a number of them on the vine background
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Levoča - Backside of Basilica of St. James"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ingo Mehling, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 9 June 2019 by Ingo Mehling [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levoca_-_Basilica_of_St._James.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "miasto Levoča"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Henryk Bielamowicz, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 25 June 2018 by Henryk Bielamowicz [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levoča,_kościół_św._Jakuba_(HB9).jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0
view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pohľad na historické centrum Levoče s bazilikou sv. Jakuba"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Vladimír Ruček, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 13 September 2017 by Vladimír Ruček [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bazilika_svätého_Jakuba_v_Levoči.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Jakobus, Levoča, Hochaltar aus der Werkstatt von Meister Paul von Leutschau, der höchste Holzaltar der Welt, 1517:"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerda Arendt, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 9 August 2017 by Gerda Arendt [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St._James,_Levoča,_Main_altar,_2017.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kościół św. Jakuba w Lewoczy - Oratorium Korwinowskie"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pudelek, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph August 2007 by Pudelek [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chrám_svätého_Jakuba-Vir_dolorum.jpg] [accessed 4 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
view of church interior - north portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Chrám svätého Jakuba v meste Levoča. Okres Levoča.región Spiš. Interiér vchodu do chrámu. Severná strana."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jozef Kotulič, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph 21 July 2011 by Jozef Kotulič [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Levoca11Slovakia7.JPG] [accessed 4 July 2023]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-3.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Rudolf Kukura, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm [accessed 29 November 2008]
Copyright Instructions: Photographs and permission received (e-mail of 2 Dec 2008)
INFORMATION
FontID: 14033LEV
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Rímskokatolícka Bazilika svätého Jakuba / Chrám svätého Jakuba
Church Patron Saints: St. James the Greater [aka James the Great, James the Elder]
Church Location: Kláštorská, 054 01 Levoča, Slovakia
Country Name: Slovakia
Location: Levoča, Prešovský kraj
Directions to Site: Located off (W) road 18, N of highway E50, about 50 km W of Prešov city
Ecclesiastic Region: Biskupstvo Spišské Podhradie
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in a chapel at the W end of the S aisle
Century and Period: 14th century (late?), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Spišská Nová Ves workshop
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Rudolf Kukura, of www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.htm, for his photographs of this font. We are also grateful to Pol Herman for his help in documenting this font
Church Notes: three earlier churches here [dedicated to St. John, St. Nicholas and St. Elizabeth] disappeared; present church originated in an earlier building of 1280; re-built 14thC; modified late-15thC; again 16th, 18th, 19th and 20thC; main altar 16thC; paintings 15th, 16thC;
Font Notes:
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Described and illustrated in http://www.chramsvjakuba.sk/en.html [accessed 29 November 2008]: "A bronze baptismal font, coming from the last quarter of the 14th century, is standing, in the so-called baptismal chapel, at the back of the southern nave in front of the altar of St. Elisabeth Durínska. It has a form of a gothic chalice. It is the work of a bell manufacturing workshop from Spišská Nová Ves. It has a rich decoration concentrated in the upper part in several strips of the vegetal paragon. Along the perimeter of the baptismal font there are scenes with repeated motive of Crucifixion, banked with four busts, probably representing prophets and then St. Peter and Paul. The middle whorl is decorated with the busts of 12 prophets".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 49.0269, 20.5889
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 49° 1′ 36.84″ N, 20° 35′ 20.04″ E
UTM: 34U 469947 5430528
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: round (mounted) -- chalice shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round