Berlin No. 3

Results: 71 records

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B01: Virgin Mary - Madonna and Christ-child

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - holding staff - wearing pilgrim garb

Scene Description: and holding the characteristic shell

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B03: Apostle or saint - holding axe - unidentified

Scene Description: one of two bearded figures holding an axe; this one holds a book in his left hand; perhaps Thomas the Apostle?

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B04: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Judas Thaddeus - holding axe

Scene Description: [NB: tentative identification] the axe is held in his left hand; the right hand points to it

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B05: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with sword

Scene Description: [NB: tentative identification]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B06: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B07: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and book

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B08: Christ - standing - bearded - with processional cross in left hand - right hand raised in benediction

Scene Description: not haloed; placed between Peter and Paul; only figure in the benediction pose [NB: tentattive identification]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B09: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - holding book and sword

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B10: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Bartholomew - holding flaying knife

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B11: Apostle or saint - unidentified

Scene Description: the one on the left: James the Less? Simon Zelotes? [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B12: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Philip - holding cross in right hand - holding book in left hand

Scene Description: on the right side [NB: tentative identification] -- the double cross occasionally associated with Philip

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

B13: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. John the Evangelist - holding goblet or chalice

Scene Description: the combination of the youthful figure and the chalice symbol suggest identification as John

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

BBL01: inscription - part 1

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

BBL02: inscription - part 2

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

BBL03: inscription - part 3

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

BBL04: inscription - part 4

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged - 4

Scene Description: they appear to be a cross between a dragon and an amphisbaena [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: a series of them on the stem of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

design element - motifs - vine

Scene Description: all around

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

information

Image Source: field notes taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

information

Image Source: field notes taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of base - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of base - detail

Scene Description: one of the fanciful winged beasts of the base

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: L->R: John the Evangelist - Madonna and Child - Janms the Greater - unidentified

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: L->R: James the Greater - unidentified - Jude? - Catherine? - Andrew

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: L->R: Andrew - Peter - Christ? - Paul

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of basin - detail

Scene Description: L->R: Paul - Bartholomew - unidentified - James the Less or Simon Zelotes? - Philip

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: no drain apparent

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2010 by Beek100 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin,_Mitte,_Marienkirche.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church exterior - west end - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Scene Description: portal to the right [south] of the main west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west façade - window

Scene Description: right above the portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church exterior - west view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - altar and retable

Scene Description: located against the north wall, towards the east end of the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel

Scene Description: 18th-century altar by Christian Bernhard Rode -- bronze font of 1437

view of church interior - chancel - font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - chancel and east end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph 25 April 2008 taken by Dominik Tefert [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:St_Marien_Berlin_Mittelschiff.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2013]

Copyright Instructions: Released by its author into the public domain

view of church interior - monument

Scene Description: in the context of the east end of the north aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - monument

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - monument - detail

Scene Description: notice the size of the donors in relation to that of the Crucified Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - nave - looking west

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 May 2007 by Jorge Royan [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin-_A_winged_marble_angel_and_candles_St_Marienkirche_-_2734.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2013]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of church interior - nave - statue

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: in the presbitery

view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: in the presbitery, north side

view of church interior - painting - detail

Scene Description: an enhanced digital rendition of part of Der Totentanz [Danse Macabre] 22 m. long & 2 m. high mural paintings of 1484 in this church -- the actual mural paintings are located on the north wall of what is now the west vestibule of the church

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - painting - detail

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit - detail

Scene Description: alabaster; 1703

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit - northwest view

Scene Description: alabaster; 1703

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit - sounding board

Scene Description: and crowded canopy

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - pulpit - southwest view

Scene Description: alabaster; 1703

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - retable

Scene Description: located against the north wall, towards the east end of the aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of church interior - west end

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of font - east side

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of font - north side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of font - northeast side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of font - northeast view

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of font - northwest side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the southwest side of the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of font in context

Scene Description: showing the west side of the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of font or stoup

Scene Description: a modern one, located also in the presbitery

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of object

Scene Description: the baptismal dish used on the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

view of object

Scene Description: detail of the baptismal dish used on the font

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 March 2014 by BSI

INFORMATION

FontID: 18423BER

Church/Chapel: St.-Marienkirche in Berlin-Mitte

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin

Church Location: Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 8, 10178 Berlin [formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße]

Country Name: Germany

Location: Berlin, Berlin

Directions to Site: Located in central Berlin, near Unter den Linden and Alexanderplatz

Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Berlin

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the presbitery, near the main altar

Date: 1437

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Church Notes: Church first mentioned in 1292, but believed to have been started in 1270 -- details of Danse macabre murals in www.dodedans.com/Eberlin.htm [accessed 22 March 2014]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Bronze baptismal font of 1437 consisting of a bucket-shape basin decorated with an arcade of thirteen round arches all around, a figure in each: Madonna and Child under one arch; St. James the Greater in pilgrim garb; bearded figure holding axe in the right hand and book in the left; bearded figure holding axe in the left hand and pointing to it with the right hand [Jude?]; female (?) figure holding sword in the right hand and pointing to it with the left [St. Catherine?]; St. Andrew with saltire cross in his right hand and a book in the left; St. Peter with large key in his right hand and a book in his left; bearded figure with right hand raised in benediction, a processional cross with banner in his left [Christ?]; bearded figure holding a sword in his right hand, a book in his left [Paul?]; bearded figure with flaying knife (?) [Bartholomew?]; figure holding object in the right hand and book in the left [?]; bearded figure holding club (?) in the right hand, a book in the left [James the Less? / Simon Zelotes?]; bearded figure with double cross in his right hand and a book in his left [Philip?]; youthful figure holding a chalice [John?]; patterned moulding above, at the rim, band with an inscription below; raised on a moulded pedestal base, and four winged beasts, a cross between a dragon and an amphisbaena, that link the underbowl to the outer perimeter of the splaying lower base. The font is now located in the presbitery, near the main altar [NB: we have no information on the font of the original 13th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.520556, 13.406667

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 31′ 14″ N, 13° 24′ 24″ E

UTM: 33U 391894 5820131

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: bucket-shaped (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Rim Thickness: 6 cm

Diameter (inside rim): 80.5 cm

Diameter (includes rim): 92 cm

Basin Depth: 65 cm

Height of Basin Side: 32 cm

Basin Total Height: 70 cm

Height of Base: 32 cm

Font Height (less Plinth): 102 cm

Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Low German and Latin

Inscription Notes: [NB: on-site transcription to be revised]

Inscription Location: around the lower basin sides

Inscription Text: "Ik-hette-ene-dope-werliken-ik-dene- den-Armiu-ALSO-DEN-NK/h-ru-ANNO-DOM-M-CCCC-XXXVII"

Inscription Source: on-site