Ribeira Brava
Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
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Results: 10 records
animal - mammal - quadruped?
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by John Wilkes
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by John Wilkes
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design element - motifs - moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by John Wilkes
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design element - motifs - vine - bearing fruit
Scene Description: all around; the fruit looks like arum, but the vine does not look like the regular representation of acanthus, rather more like an interlace or braid
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by John Wilkes
Copyright Instructions: Standing permission
inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by John Wilkes
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view of church exterior - west view
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 31 January 2015 by John Wilkes
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view of church interior - chancel and east end
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luke H. Gordon, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 29 March 2008 by Luke H. Gordon [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ribeira_Brava_Church_-_Interior.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-2.0
view of church interior - retable - detail
![from the source caption of this image: right panel of the "Tríptico da Capela dos Reis Magos da Igreja da Ribeira Brava [...] between 1510 and 1515 [...] Attributed to Master of the Morrison Triptych (fl. circa 1500)"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150228008_compressed.png)
Scene Description: from the source caption of this image: right panel of the "Tríptico da Capela dos Reis Magos da Igreja da Ribeira Brava [...] between 1510 and 1515 [...] Attributed to Master of the Morrison Triptych (fl. circa 1500)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph of an oil-on-oak-panel 'Adoração dos Reis Magos' originally from the Igreja de São Bento, now at the Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Master_of_the_Morrison_Triptych_-_Adoração_dos_Reis_Magos.jpg] [accessed 28 February 2015]
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view of church interior - retable - detail
![from the source caption of this image: detail of the right panel of the "Tríptico da Capela dos Reis Magos da Igreja da Ribeira Brava [...] between 1510 and 1515 [...] Attributed to Master of the Morrison Triptych (fl. circa 1500)"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1150228009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: from the source caption of this image: detail of the right panel of the "Tríptico da Capela dos Reis Magos da Igreja da Ribeira Brava [...] between 1510 and 1515 [...] Attributed to Master of the Morrison Triptych (fl. circa 1500)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital photograph of an oil-on-oak-panel 'Adoração dos Reis Magos' originally from the Igreja de São Bento, now at the Museu de Arte Sacra do Funchal [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Master_of_the_Morrison_Triptych_-_Adoração_dos_Reis_Magos_(detail).jpg] [accessed 28 February 2015]
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view of font in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Instituto da Habitação e da Reabilitação Urbana, 2014
Image Source: photograph taken 1999 (?); in SIPA [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=6594] [accessed 28 February 2015]
Copyright Instructions: reproduced in accordance with the "Termos e Condições de Utilização dos Conteúdos SIPA"
INFORMATION
FontID: 19736RIB
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Igreja Matriz de São Bento
Church Patron Saints: St. Benedict [aka Benet]
Church Location: Rua dos Camachos 20 Ribeira Brava, 9350-214 Madeira, Portugal -- Tel.: +351 291 952 172
Country Name: Portugal
Location: Madeira, Madeira
Directions to Site: Located on S coast of the island of Madeira, W of Câmara de Lobos and Funchal
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese do Funchal
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the nave, S side
Date: ca. 1502? / 1504?
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Late Gothic? / Manueline?
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes for his photographs of this church and font
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font noted in the SIPA [ref.: IPA.00006594] [www.monumentos.pt/Site/APP_PagesUser/SIPA.aspx?id=6594] [accessed 28 February 2015]: "Na nave do lado da Epístola, pia baptismal de cantaria esculpida e policromada no piso térreo da torre [...] 1504 - oferta do rei D. Manuel de uma pia baptismal datada". Stone baptismal font consisting of a round tapering basin decorated with a protruding vine all around; the vine is somewhat odd, since it appears to be a leafless braid or interlace, but has very prominent arum-like fruit bunches on it; above this vine is an inscription [no transcription available] which includes several crosses in it; it is raised on a round pedestal base that has what appears to be an animal or animals forming the centre ring, with mouldings a foliage motifs on the slaying lower base, which is also circular. There is no font cover present. The font is in the Late Gothic / Baroque style known is Portugal as "manuelino", and is located at the west end of the nave, in the espace set up as baptistery beneath the tower.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 32.671119, -17.06457
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 32° 40′ 16.03″ N, 17° 3′ 52.45″ W
UTM: 28S 306406 3616711
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: around the upper basin side