Contrasta No. 2 / Komtrasta
Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
Results: 19 records
design element - motifs - flat moulding
Scene Description: noticed how it curves down in this area
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
design element - motifs - floral - 5-petall
Scene Description: seen here on the left, atop a short rib
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
design element - motifs - notch
Scene Description: on the sides of the square lower base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
design element - motifs - wave or zigzag - vertical
Scene Description: seen here to the right of the cross; damaged
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
design element - motifs - wheel
Scene Description: seen here on the right, atop a short rib
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
design element - patterns - ribbed - flat
Scene Description: flat ribs; some are short, others reach the upper rim moulding
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
symbol - cross - Greek - fleuronnée
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
view of basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
view of basin - detail
![Source caption: "pila bautismal de la iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción [...] Detalle de uno de los motivos ornamentales de la copa; presenta una cruz de flor de lis en relieve"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240810023_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "pila bautismal de la iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción [...] Detalle de uno de los motivos ornamentales de la copa; presenta una cruz de flor de lis en relieve"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08379] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/67793] [accessed 10 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
view of basin - underbowl - detail
![Source caption: "pila bautismal de la iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción [...] Detalle de la decoración de la taza, presenta gallones que terminan en motivos radiales biselados"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1240810022_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "pila bautismal de la iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción [...] Detalle de la decoración de la taza, presenta gallones que terminan en motivos radiales biselados"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Photo-Araba, 2024
Image Source: digital image [ES.01059.ATHA.GUE.CD. 08381] of an undated [1940-1960] B&W photograph by López de Guereñu [https://photo.araba.eus/s/photoaraba/item/67795] [accessed 10 August 2024]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
view of church exterior - apse - corbels
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kontrasta kontzejuko Elizmendi ermitako teilatuko irudiak Araban"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Ksarasola, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph taken 30 August 2019 by Ksarasola [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kontrasta_Araba1.jpg] [accessed 24 November 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior - detail
![Source caption: "Hilarri erromatarrak Kontrastako Elizmendiko baselizan. Alboz jarrita daude paretetan." [NB: the former Hispano-Roman funerary monument of an old man, Minicius Florus, and his child slave was re-cycled in the medieval Ermita de Elizmendi, in Contrasta]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1201124006_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Hilarri erromatarrak Kontrastako Elizmendiko baselizan. Alboz jarrita daude paretetan." [NB: the former Hispano-Roman funerary monument of an old man, Minicius Florus, and his child slave was re-cycled in the medieval Ermita de Elizmendi, in Contrasta]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luistxo Fernandez, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2020 by Luistxo Fernandez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kontrasta-elizmendi-errom2_(cropped).jpg] [accessed 24 November 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church exterior in context - southeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Kontrastako Elizmendiko baseliza, hegoaldetik ikusia"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Luistxo Fernandez, 2020
Image Source: digital photograph taken 15 February 2020 by Luistxo Fernandez [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kontrasta-elizmendi.jpg] [accessed 24 November 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Txaro Irigoyen, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2015 by Txaro Irigoyen
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 24 November 2020)
view of font in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Vista frontal de la pila medieval; se decora con fuertes gallones que la abrazan y que terminan en motivos radiales biselados. En uno de los costados presenta una flor de lis en relieve"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Arabako Foru Aldundia / Diputación Foral de Alava, 2020
Image Source: digital image [ATHA-DAF-GUE-8380.JPG] of a ca. 1940?] B&W photograph by Gerardo López de Guereñu Galarraga in the Arabako Agiritegi Zerbitzua
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
INFORMATION
FontID: 23008CON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Ermita de Elizmendi / Elizmendiko Andra Mariaren baseliza
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Calle Elizmendi / Kalea, 17, 01117 Contrasta, Alava, Spain
Country Name: Spain
Location: Alava / Araba, País Vasco / Euskadi
Directions to Site: Located off the A2128, about 20 km NNE of Antoñana, just S of the Puerto de Opacua, in the Sierra de Urbasa, border with Navarra. The Ermita is located about 200-300 yds. SE of the village centre where the parish church is located
Ecclesiastic Region: Diócesis de Vitoria
Historical Region: Cuadrilla de Campezo / Montaña Alavesa
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century, Gothic
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Txaro Irigoyen for her photographs of this font
Font Notes:
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There are two different fonts labelled "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora de Contrasta" in Gerardo López de Guereñu [www.araba.eus/arabadok/search?q=*%3A*&start=0&rows=12&sort=msstored_title+asc&norm=albala&fq=mssearch_institutions&fv=Iglesia+de+Nuestra+Señora+de+la+Anunciación+(Contrasta%2C+Álava)&fo=and] [accessed 24 November 2020]: One of them [ref.: ATHA-DAF-GUE-23146] [old ref.: Nº de identificación: 23146 Duplicado del negativo: R. 296 / F. 5 / N.23 Duplicado del positivo: 13311] in Nº de identificación: 23146 Duplicado del negativo: R. 296 / F. 5 / N.23 / Duplicado del positivo: 13311] is illustrated with an image [ref.: ATHA-DAF-GUE-23146] that shows a font consisting of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with diagonal ribbed pattern raised on a short circular pedestal base; an accompanying descripton note [Edukiari buruzko oharrak] reads: "Desde este perfil se aprecia una gran copa de piedra sobre pedestal, algo irregular y basculada hacia un lado. Su decoración son gallones que, partiendo de la base, se abren hacia el borde de la taza". This is the baptismal font in the parish church of Contrasta.
The second baptismal font documented in the same source by López de Guereñu also under the heading of "Pila bautismal de la iglesia de la Asunción de Nuestra Señora de Contrasta" [ref.: ATHA-DAF-GUE-8380 [...] Nº de identificación: 8380 Duplicado del positivo: 13342 Positivo original: 8380] and accompanied by the description note [Edukiari buruzko oharrak] "Vista frontal de la pila medieval; se decora con fuertes gallones que la abrazan y que terminan en motivos radiales biselados. En uno de los costados presenta una flor de lis en relieve" is actually the baptismal in the nearby ermita, not the one in the parish church. Bilbao (1994: 114) describes as a baptismal font of the Gothic period, the basin ornamented with ribbed pattern and a fleurdelysée cross in relief. Bilbao (ibid.) appears to have used López de Guereñu's entry of 1940 [cf. supra] and cites an entry in the Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria. [NB: the font in the parish church is entered in BSI as Contrasta No. 1]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 42.766667, -2.283333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 42° 46′ 0″ N, 2° 17′ 0″ W
UTM: 30T 558635 4735153
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Number of Pieces: 3?
Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: round, flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Catálogo Monumental de la Diócesis de Vitoria, 1968
Bilbao López, Garbiñe, Simbolismo e Iconografía Bautismal en el Arte medieval Alavés, 1994