Vielha No. 3 / Viella
Image copyright © Isidre blanc, 2015
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Results: 16 records
design element - motifs - floral - 4-petal - in a circle
Scene Description: in the centre
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
design element - motifs and patterns - varied
Scene Description: on the vertical side protrusions of the base; also visible here is part of the back decoration
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
information
![museum label identifying the object as the base of a 12th-13thC Romanesque baptismal font from the church of Santa Maria de Mitjaran [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1200913050_compressed.png)
Scene Description: museum label identifying the object as the base of a 12th-13thC Romanesque baptismal font from the church of Santa Maria de Mitjaran [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
symbol - floral - fleur-de-lis
Scene Description: a single one atop the central motif, and a double-headed one below
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
symbol - floral - fleur-de-lis - in a semi-circle
Scene Description: all around the central motif
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
view of base
Scene Description: notice the large drain hole that would have matched the one in the missing basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
view of base in context
Scene Description: as displayed in the museum
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
view of base in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
view of church exterior - south façade
Scene Description: Source caption: "Arribada d'una processó a l'església de Santa Maria de Mijaran"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [AFCEC_SOLER_D_1900] of a 1907 B&W photograph by Juli Soler i Santaló, in the Fons Juli Soler i Santaló, Centre Excursionista de Catalunya [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arribada_d'una_processó_a_l'església_de_Santa_Maria_de_Mijaran.jpeg] [accessed 13 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-90 / PD-Art (PD-old-90)
view of church exterior - south portal
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [AFCEC_SOLER_D_1072] of a 1907 B&W photograph by Juli Soler i Santaló, in the Fons Juli Soler i Santaló, Centre Excursionista de Catalunya [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Porta_de_Santa_Maria_de_Mijaran.jpg] [accessed 13 September 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Església de Santa Maria de Mijaran (Vielha e Mijaran)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Isidre blanc, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2015 by Isidre blanc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SANTA_MARIA_DE_MIJARAN_-_VIELHA_-_IB-430.JPG] [accessed 13 September 2020]
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view of church exterior in context - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "n home amb un gos davant la capella de Mijaran. Juli Soler i Santaló (1907)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [AFCEC_SOLER_D_1072] of a 1907 B&W photograph by Juli Soler i Santaló, in the Fons Juli Soler i Santaló, Centre Excursionista de Catalunya [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Un_home_amb_un_gos_davant_la_capella_de_Mijaran.jpeg] [accessed 13 September 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-PD-Mark / PD-old-90 / PD-Art (PD-old-90)
view of church interior - looking southeast
Scene Description: Source caption: "Església de Santa Maria de Mijaran (Vielha e Mijaran)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Isidre blanc, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 July 2015 by Isidre blanc [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SANTA_MARIA_DE_MIJARAN_-_VIELHA_-_IB-435.JPG] [accessed 13 September 2020]
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view of context
Scene Description: the 18thC building now used as Museo del Valle de Arán
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Montse Rota Serra, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph 14 August 2020 by Montse Rota Serra
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 13 September 2020)
view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Pila baptismal a l ' interior de l'església de Santa Maria de Mijaran. Josep Salvany i Blanch (1917)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image [SaP_390_08] of a 1917 "Placa de vidre estereoscòpica", in the Memòria Digital de Catalunya, Biblioteca de Catalunya [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pila_baptismal_a_l_'_interior_de_l'església_de_Santa_Maria_de_Mijaran.jpeg] [accessed 13 September 2020]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 22898VIE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo del Valle de Arán / Musèu dera Val d'Aran / Museo de la Val d'Aran Viella -- Carrèr Major, 26, 25530 Vielha, Lleida, Spain
Church/Chapel: [originally from Iglesia de Santa Maria de Mijaran?]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: [NB: address and coordinates are for the Mitjaran church site] Ctra. de França, 41, 25530 Mijaran, Lérida, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Lérida / Lleida, Cataluña / Catalunya
Directions to Site: Located off the N-230, just N of Vielha, and in its municipality
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montse Rota Serra for her photographs of the surviving font base
Church Notes: perhaps of Carlingian times but documented 1175; became Augustinian monastery 14thC; destroyed 1472; monastery restored 1506; abandoned by the Augustinians 1771, became church; damaged by floords; sold to private 1835; munitions storage during Civil War (1938), blown up thereafter; some restoration 20thC
Font Notes:
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A font is shown inside the church at Mitjaran in 1917 ["fotografía estereoscòpica de Josep Salvany (1917) Biblioteca de Catalunya"] [www.monestirs.cat/monst/varan/va08miga/Migaran-10.jpg] [accessed 13 September 2020]. The font appears to consists of a roughly hemispherical basin raised on a pedestal base; the font is located inside the church, by the stairs leading to the gallery, just inside the entranceway; the resolution of the photograph does not make the details of the font discernible. We no longer know the whereabouts the basin of this font, but there is a pedestal base in the Museo del Valle de Arán that is identified on the label as the base of a Romanesque baptismal font from the church of Santa Maria de Mijaran, dated 12th-13th century; the pedestal base appears to be almost round but it has vertical protrusions on the sides; these protrusions are decorated, as is the visible front of the base, with a four-petal leaf inscribed in a circle in the centre, surrounded by five fleurs-de-lis inscribed in semi-circles all around; additionally, just below the centre motif, is a long-stemmed flower with fleurs-de-lis at both ends of the stem; this base has a large drain hole through it, which would have connected with the drain in the missing basin.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.7106, 0.7961
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 42′ 38.16″ N, 0° 47′ 45.96″ E
UTM: 31T 319519 4731033
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone?
Number of Pieces: 2?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round