Aarhus No. 1 / Aars / Aarss Arhus / Århus / Aros / Arus
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Results: 17 records
B01: Christ - Christ in Majesty - in a mandorla - on a rainbow - with double-edged sword - with lily
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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B02: Apostle or saint - unidentified
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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B03: Virgin Mary - coronation in heaven
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Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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B04: New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion
LBF01: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with book
![a standing cleric with an angel's head [cf. Font notes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1100405006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: a standing cleric with an angel's head [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jürgen Howaldt, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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LBF02: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - with book
Scene Description: a standing cleric with a lion's head
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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LBF03: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Luke - symbol - with book
Scene Description: a standing cleric with an ox's head
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jürgen Howaldt, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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LBF04: Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. John - holding book
Scene Description: a standing cleric with an eagle's head
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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design element - architectural - arcade - Gothic arches - foliated arches - columns with capitals and bases
Scene Description: housing the figures and scenes, except for the Christ in Majesty
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jürgen Howaldt, 2009
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: artist's view, 1875
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Image Source: Norsk bokmål: Illustrasjon hentet fra boken Nordiska taflor av ukjent forfatter og utgitt av Albert Bonnier (se, 1875), National Library of Norway [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nordiska_taflor_-_no-nb_digibok_2014031428011-49.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2015]
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Scene Description: artist's view, 1888
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Image Source: scan of an illustration in Ottův slovník naučný (1888: vol. 1: 9) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aarhus_cathedral_1888.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2015]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Toldboden, Aarhus Domkirke and Katedralskolen seen from "Dokken" (an old shipyard), Aarhus, Denmark"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Villy Fink Isaksen, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 March 2011 by Villy Fink Isaksen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Havne_udsigt_fra_dokken.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2015]
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view of church exterior in context - west view
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Image Source: digital photograph 26 August 2008 by Villy Fink Isaksen [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aarhus_domkirke.jpg] [accessed 6 November 2015]
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2013 by Alf van Beem [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Århus_Domkirke_pic24.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2015]
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: 1479 by Bernt Notke, of Lübeck; a gift of Bishop Jens Ivarsen Lange
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2013 by Alf van Beem [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Århus_Domkirke_pic06.JPG] [accessed 6 November 2015]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jürgen Howaldt, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jürgen Howaldt, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 March 2009 by Jürgen Howaldt [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Baptismal_font_of_%C3%85rhus_Domkirke] [accessed 5 March 2010]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 16300AAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Århus Domkirke / Skt. Clemens Kirke
Church Patron Saints: St. Clement [for earlier dedications cf. ChurchNotes]
Church Location: Store Torv, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark -- Tel.: +45 86 20 54 00
Country Name: Denmark
Location: Århus / Aarhus, Midtjylland
Directions to Site: Located in the bay of its name, in the Kattegat Sea, 40 km SSE of Randers, 50 km NNE of Horsens
Ecclesiastic Region: Århus Stift
Historical Region: Århus Amt
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the nave, at the choir
Date: 1481
Century and Period: 15th century (late), Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Peter Hansen [aka Hanssen]
Cognate Fonts: Hansen's font at Flensburg is similar but not identical; also made the font at Haderslev
Church Notes: first known stave church here ca. 900 was dedicated to the Holy Trinity; first cathedral church ca. 1000 (?) dedicated to St. Nicholas; next church, also wooden, 1102, dedicated to St. Clement; destroyed by 1190; present cathedral church started ca. 1190, finished ca. 1300; burned down in 1330; abandoned in 1449; re-built 1500;
Font Notes:
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Bronze baptismal font made in 1481 by Peter Hansen [aka Hanssen], a bell-maker from Flensburg (Flensborg), a donation from bishop Jens Iversen Lange to the cathedral ; it consists of a bucket-shaped basin raised on four supporting figures; the basin has running inscriptions below the upper rim and around the lower basin side, between which is a Christ in Majesty in a mandorla and an arcade of foliated arches populated with the Coronation of the Virgin, the Crucifixion and a number of Apostles; the four standing figures that support the basin have human bodies each dressed as a cleric holding a book, but the heads are those of the symbols of the four Evangelists. There is no cover present; the baptismal dish is probably 17th-18th century. The font was donated to the cathedral by Bishop Jens Ivarsen Lange, donor also of the main altar retable.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 56.156944, 10.210556
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 56° 9′ 25″ N, 10° 12′ 38″ E
UTM: 32V 575191 6224207
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: metal, bronze
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: German and Latin?
Inscription Location: on the basin sides