Verona No. 1 / San Giovanni in Fonte

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B01: New Testament - public life of Christ - baptism of Christ

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B02: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation - 2 females in attendance

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B03: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Nativity

Scene Description: upper right side of the panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B04: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Christ's first bath

Scene Description: lower right side of the panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B05: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents - Herod gives orders

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B06: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Massacre of the Innocents

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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B07: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Annunciation to the shepherds

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B08: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - three Wise Men - adoration of the kings

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B09: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Flight to Egypt

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B10: New Testament - Childhood and youth of Christ - Visitation - embracing

Scene Description: left side of the panel

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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design element - architectural - arcade - round arches - 48

Scene Description: six on each side of the octagonal basin

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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design element - patterns - torsade

Scene Description: on some of the columns

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of baptistery - plan

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Corblet (1881: v. 2, p. 17)

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Detail of the Annunciation scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Detail of the Adoration of the Magi scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Detail of the Annunciation to the Shepherds

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Nativity scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - detail

Scene Description: Detail of the Massacre of the Innocents scene

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 November 2022)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 November 2022)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 November 2022)

view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

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view of church exterior - east end

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 9 October 2013 by JoJan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verona_082.JPG] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church exterior - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 6 August 2011 by Jean-Christophe Benoist [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vérone_-_Cathédrale_Santa_Maria_Matricolare_-_Vue_générale.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: Source caption: "Verona, view from Castel San Pietro toward the cathedral and Ponte Pietra"

Image Source: photograph taken 20 July 2011 by Jakub Halun [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20110720_Verona_3076.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church interior - plan

Image Source: digital image of an 18thC plan of the cathedral and baptistery, Paul Davis, David Hemsoll - Michele Sanmicheli [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PiantaDuomoVerona.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of font

Image Source: digital image of a B&W photograph in Bond (1908)

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

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view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 November 2022)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 November 2022)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 November 2022)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 November 2022)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 30 October 2004)

view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2015 by Didier Descouens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duomo_(Verona)_-_San_Giovanni_in_Fonte_-_baptismal_font.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2021 by Antonio Daban Royo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 11 November 2022)

INFORMATION

FontID: 00117GIO

Church/Chapel: Duomo di Verona / Cattedrale Santa Maria Matricolare, Chiesa di San Giovanni in Fonte

Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin - St. John

Church Location: Piazza Duomo, 21, 37121 Verona VR, Italy -- Tel.: +39 045 800 8813

Country Name: Italy

Location: Verona, Veneto

Directions to Site: Located in the Piazza Duomo, Verona city centre

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Verona

Font Location in Church: In the baptistery

Date: ca. 1175-1200

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: by Brioloto?

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.com] and to Antonio Daban Royo for their photographs of this font

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font from ca. 1200 in the 8th-century baptistery. Described and illustrated in Bond (1908: 26 and ill. on p. 27): the 'tank', "cut out of a solid block of the local marble, is no less that 31 feet in circumference; it is probably of the period when the baptistery was rebuilt, 1122-1135"; like the 'tanks' at Parma and at the baptistery of the Orthodox at Ravenna, the tank at Verona has also "a kind of stone pulpit [...], the object of which" suggests Bond (ibid.) "may be to protect the vestments of the bishop from being splashed". Unlike the other two 'pulpits', the one in the Verona tank is in the centre of it; Bond (ibid.) suggests rather awkwardly, that "perhaps a plank was put across to it in order to allow the officiating priest to get inside it." Nordström (1984) describes the presence of scenes of the Baptism of Christ, Annunciation, Nativity, First Bath, King Herod ordering the Massacre, Massacre of the Innocents, Adoration of the Shepherds, Adoration of the Magi, on the sides of the octagonal font [the insert in the basin well is quatrefoil]; he dates the font to the last quarter of the 12th century or circa 1200. The sides of the basin are ornamented with a six-arch frame resting on only two columns -one at each corner of the octagonal basin; the columns are ornamented with spiral torsade or chevron motif. Basin side scenes [order may not be sequential]: 1)Baptism of Christ in the Jordan in the presence of two angels; 2)Annunciation: Gabriel holds a lily and extends a hand towards a haloed Mary who in front of throne; several figures (female?) stand on both sides of the scene with courtains behind them; 3)Nativity, 4)Jesus' first bath and 5)Visitation are conflated on one single panel; 6)Flight to Egypy; 7)Herod orders the Massacre of the Innocents; 8)Herod's troops carry out the Massacre of the Innocents; 9)Adoration of the Shepherds; 10)Adoration of the Magi -- The marble font is dated elsewhere to ca. 1200. There is a red stone quatrefoil inner basin inside the larger octagonal font, and a round bronze basin inside the latter. [to be completed] -- [We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for the photographs of this font]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.447045, 10.996849

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 26′ 49.36″ N, 10° 59′ 48.65″ E

UTM: 32T 656153 5034553

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: octagonal [with quatrefoil inner basin and bronze basin]]

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

Diameter (includes rim): 300.917 cm*

Notes on Measurements: Based on Bond's measurement of 31 feet in circumference (ibid., p. 26)

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882

Davies, J.G., The Architectural Setting of Baptism, London: Barrie and Rockliff, 1962

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984