Berlin No. 3
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Results: 71 records
B01: New Testament - Virgin Mary - Madonna with Christ-child
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B02: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. James the Great - holding staff - wearing pilgrim garb
Scene Description: and holding the characteristic shell
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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?
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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
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B05: Apostle or saint - St. Catherine of Alexandria - with sword
![[NB: tentative identification]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140310044_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: tentative identification]
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B06: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Andrew - with his cross
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B07: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Peter - holding 1 key and book
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B08: Christ - standing - bearded - with processional cross in left hand - right hand raised in benediction
![not haloed; placed between Peter and Paul; only figure in the benediction pose [NB: tentattive identification]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140310047_compressed.png)
Scene Description: not haloed; placed between Peter and Paul; only figure in the benediction pose [NB: tentattive identification]
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B09: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Paul - holding book and sword
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B10: Apostle or saint - Apostles - St. Bartholomew - holding flaying knife
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B11: Apostle or saint - unidentified
![the one on the left: James the Less? Simon Zelotes? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140310050_compressed.png)
Scene Description: the one on the left: James the Less? Simon Zelotes? [cf. FontNotes]
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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
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B13: Apostle or saint - Apostles - Evangelist - St. John- holding goblet or chalice
Scene Description: the combination of the youthful figure and the chalice symbol suggest identification as John
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BBL01: inscription - part 1
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BBL02: inscription - part 2
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BBL03: inscription - part 3
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BBL04: inscription - part 4
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view of font - northeast side
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
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view of font - northeast view
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140310021_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
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view of font - northwest side
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140310020_compressed.png)
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view of font - north side
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140310019_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
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view of font - northeast side
![[NB: orientation is approximate]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140310018_compressed.png)
Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]
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view of font - east side
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view of font or stoup
Scene Description: a modern one, located also in the presbitery
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view of basin - interior
Scene Description: no drain apparent
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design element - motifs - vine
Scene Description: all around
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: L->R: Paul - Bartholomew - unidentified - James the Less or Simon Zelotes? - Philip
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: L->R: Andrew - Peter - Christ? - Paul
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: L->R: James the Greater - unidentified - Jude? - Catherine? - Andrew
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view of basin - detail
Scene Description: L->R: John the Evangelist - Madonna and Child - Janms the Greater - unidentified
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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - columns with capitals and bases
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view of church exterior - west façade - detail
![portal to the right [south] of the main west portal](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140310005_compressed.png)
Scene Description: portal to the right [south] of the main west portal
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view of church exterior - west façade - window
Scene Description: right above the portal
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view of church exterior - west portal
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view of church exterior - west end - detail
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view of church exterior - west view
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view of church exterior - southeast view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Beek100, 2010
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 April 2010 by Beek100 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin,_Mitte,_Marienkirche.jpg] [accessed 20 April 2013]
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view of church interior - painting
Scene Description: in the presbitery, north side
view of church interior - painting
Scene Description: in the presbitery
view of church interior - chancel
Scene Description: 18th-century altar by Christian Bernhard Rode -- bronze font of 1437
view of church interior - nave - statue
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view of church interior - nave - detail
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view of church interior - pulpit - detail
Scene Description: alabaster; 1703
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view of church interior - pulpit - sounding board
Scene Description: and crowded canopy
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view of church interior - pulpit - northwest view
Scene Description: alabaster; 1703
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view of church interior - pulpit - southwest view
Scene Description: alabaster; 1703
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view of church interior - west end
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
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view of church interior - retable
Scene Description: located against the north wall, towards the east end of the aisle
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view of church interior - altar and retable
Scene Description: located against the north wall, towards the east end of the aisle
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view of church interior - monument - detail
Scene Description: notice the size of the donors in relation to that of the Crucified Christ
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view of church interior - monument
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view of church interior - monument
Scene Description: in the context of the east end of the north aisle
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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
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view of church interior - painting - detail
![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](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1140310011_compressed.png)
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
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view of font in context
Scene Description: showing the west side of the font
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view of font in context
Scene Description: showing the southwest side of the font
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view of church interior - chancel - font
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view of church interior - nave - detail
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of church interior - looking east
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view of church interior - nave - looking west
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jorge Royan, 2007
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view of object
Scene Description: detail of the baptismal dish used on the font
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Scene Description: the baptismal dish used on the font
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view of base - detail
Scene Description: one of the fanciful winged beasts of the base
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design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: a series of them on the stem of the base
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animal - fabulous animal or monster - winged - 4
Scene Description: they appear to be a cross between a dragon and an amphisbaena [cf. FontNotes]
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view of base
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view of base - detail
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information
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 18423BER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2014-03-10; 2014-03-11
Font Date: 1437
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century, Late Gothic
Church / Chapel Name: St.-Marienkirche in Berlin-Mitte
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the presbitery, near the main altar
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
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]
Church Address: Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 8, 10178 Berlin [formerly Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße]
Site Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in central Berlin, near Unter den Linden and Alexanderplatz
Ecclesiastic Region: Erzbistum Berlin
Additional Comments: disappeared font? (the one from the original 13thC church here)
Font Notes:
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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
UTM: 33U 391894 5820131
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 52.520556, 13.406667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 52° 31′ 14″ N, 13° 24′ 24″ E
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 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 Notes: [NB: on-site transcription to be revised]
Inscription Source: on-site