Wroclaw No. 1 / Breslau / Wrocław

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New Testament - Passion of Christ - Crucifixion

Scene Description: a very crowded scene with five figures in the reduced space: Christ on the cross, the Virgin Mary, probably Mary Magdalene, John the Evangelist and Stephaton, the latter standing to the right of Christ -- notice the variety of motifs and patterns on the colimns and arch-heads

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

New Testament - Passion of Christ - Via Crucis - Christ led to Golgotha

Scene Description: one of the basin scenes visible in this image, to the left of the Crucifixion

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

angel - holding scroll - 6

Image Source: digital photograph in the National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tauchen_Baptismal_font_(detail)_02.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled - 6

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: all over the upper surface of the lobulated lower base

Image Source: digital photograph in the National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tauchen_Baptismal_font_(detail)_02.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2015]

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design element - patterns - tracery - openwork

Scene Description: with braided columns dividing the sections or panels

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

head - 12?

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph in the National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tauchen_Baptismal_font_(detail)_01.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

human figure - 2

Scene Description: two have survived, but there were probably more originally [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

human figure - demi-figure - 12?

Scene Description: in the spandrels of the arch-heads, upper end of the stem

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

human figure - male - crouching - wearing hooded tunic

Scene Description: crouching or squatting; some have been lost [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

human figure - male - crouching - wearing hooded tunic

Scene Description: crouching or squatting; some have been lost [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

view of church exterior - south view

Scene Description: artist's view of the 16thC church

Image Source: undated and unkown illustration source [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wroclaw_swElzbieta_XV.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 13 May 2011 by Dawid Galus [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:598582_Wrocław_Bazylika_Elżbiety_01.JPG] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0-PL

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 March 2006 by Lestat [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wrocław_-_K.Elżbiety.JPG] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-3.0

view of font

Scene Description: as displayed in the National Museum of Warsaw

Image Source: digital photograph in the National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tauchen_Baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of font - upper view

Scene Description: showing the metal insert or lining

Image Source: digital photograph in the National Museum in Warsaw (MNW) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tauchen_Baptismal_font_02.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: CC-Zero

view of font in context

Scene Description: as exhibited in the National Museum of Warsaw

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Genevra Kornbluth [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]

Copyright Instructions: Reproduced according to the author’s directions [“for educational, non-commercial purposes”]

INFORMATION

FontID: 20110WRO

Museum and Inventory Number: National Museum in Warsaw (MNW)

Church/Chapel: Bazylika św. Elżbiety Węgierskiej we Wrocławiu / Kościół Św. Elżbiety

Church Patron Saints: St. Elizabeth

Church Location: Świętego Mikołaja, Wrocław, Poland -- Tel.: 48713431638

Country Name: Poland

Location: województwo dolnośląskie /Lower Silesian Voivodeship

Historical Region: Lower Silesia

Font Location in Church: [în a museum]

Date: pre-1477

Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic

Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Jodocus Tauchen?

Cognate Fonts: another such in Banská Bystrica?

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Noted and illustrated in Kornbluth Photography [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]: "Baptismal Font before 1477, from the church of St. Elizabeth, Wrocław - bronze, height c.109 cm, diameter of basin 86.5 cm - Warsaw, National Museum SZM 5600". The font is attributed (?) to Jodocus Tauchen [aka Jobst / Jodok / Jost Tauchen] (fl. 1451-1495) [www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz82192.html] [accessed 8 November 2015]. The basin is round with tapering sides decorated with an arcade of open-work behind which are housed scenes (Via Crucis, Crucifixion, etc.); the arcade itself is highly decorated, torsade columns, others twisted, etc., with well-defined capitals and thickly moulded lower bases; the scenes are crowded with people very close together; a row of heads (12?) decorates the lower rim of the basin; underbowl divided into [12?] panels decorated with foliage; the stem is hexagonal in general shape, with two human figures hanging from a centre ring moulding of the same shape [it appears other figures in the same position at opposite ends are missing]; crocketed trefoiled arches with demi-figures, perhaps Biblical characters, in the spandrels, on the stem proper; the lower part of the stem splays fluidly over to a hexafoiled lower base in a profusion of vegetation in which floats an angel holding a scroll at each of the six foils; the scrolls are blank; the sides of the lower base have open-work tracery, the panels separated by braided columns; a number of crouching humans dressed with hooded tops support the lower base; some have been lost. No cover present.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.111667, 17.03

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 6′ 42″ N, 17° 1′ 48″ E

UTM: 33U 642096 5664202

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: metal, bronze

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: metal insert or liner

Diameter (includes rim): 86.5 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 109 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Kornbluth Photography [www.KornbluthPhoto.com] [accessed 8 November 2015]