Lucca No. 1

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B: design element - architectural - arcade - round arches

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2007 by BSI

B01: Apostle or saint - saints - 6

Scene Description: saints or the faithful; two female and six female, one under each arch; [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 24 June 2007 by BSI

B01: Christ - Good Shepherd?

Scene Description: under one of the arches [cf. FontNotes]

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B01: Old Testament - story of Abraham - Repudiation of Agar - Ishmael and Isaac

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

Image Source: digital photograph taken by Alejandro Alcaraz in August 2005

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B02: Old Testament - the story of Esther - Esther becomes queen (Esther 1 - 2:20)

Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]

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B03: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Exodus - holding staff that turns into serpent

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B04: Old Testament - Exodus (part III): conclusion of the Sinaitic law and its renewal - God speaks to Moses

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B05: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Exodus - crossing of the Red Sea - Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea

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B06: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Moses receives the tables of the law from God

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B07: Old Testament - Story of Moses - Exodus - presentation of the Deuteronomy to the Levites - with Aaron

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design element - motifs - floral or foliage

Scene Description: in some of the pandrels of the arcade

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design element - motifs - leaf

Scene Description: a row of them under the upper rim of the basin

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Scene Description: detail of Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea scene

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Scene Description: detail of Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea scene

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Scene Description: detail of Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea scene

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Scene Description: detail of Pharaoh crossing the Red Sea scene

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INFORMATION

FontID: 00140LUC

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Chiesa di San Frediano

Church Patron Saints: St. Fredianus [aka Frediano, Fridianus]

Church Location: Piazza S. Frediano, 55100 Lucca LU, Italy -- Tel.: +39 349 844 0290

Country Name: Italy

Location: Lucca, Toscana

Directions to Site: Located up Via Calderia, N of Via Buia, in Piazza San Frediano, Lucca.

Font Location in Church: Inisde the church, S side

Date: 1151 (Schiller); 1160 (Zarnecki)

Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Robertus [Schiller et al.] / Guglielmo? [Zarnecki]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Alejandro Alcaraz for his photographs of this font, and to Annamaria Ducci for her help in documenting this font

Church Notes: original church said to have been late-6thC; documented 685; present church 12thC; modified 13th-14thC

Font Notes: Click to view

"Excellent font completed in 1151 and signed by one Robertus". On the lower round basin "ten marble reliefs representing scenes from the times of Moses." (Schiller, 1971). In the Index of Christian Art (ref. 04820). Nordström (1984) discusses the font. Described and illustrated in Ridolfi (2002): the following are the scenes identified on the basin side: 1)Abraham repudiates Agar who departs with Ishmael on her shoulders as Isaac watches; 2)Esther enthroned by Assuerus (Xerxes I, king of Persia); 3)Moses holds the staff that becomes a serpent; 4)God speaks to Moses; 5)Crossing of the Red Sea: the Pharaoh and his army; 6)Moses receives the tablets; 7)Moses delivers the Deuteronomy to the Levitesin the presence of Aaron; 8)a series of seven arches containin a figure in each; one is identified as the Good Shepherd, the others, two female and four male, are believed to represent the congregation of the faithful or, perhaps, saints. This same source ellaborates on the partial inscription and suggests that the "M[...]LI" before the word "ROBERTUS" stands for "MILLEGLI" a local form of representing the date "1151"; it also suggests the the "MAGIST-LA" stands for "MAGISTER LAPIDUM", and identifies the material of the font as Carrara marble.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.846111, 10.504722

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 50′ 46″ N, 10° 30′ 17″ E

UTM: 32T 620952 4855881

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Carrara)

Font Shape: cylindrical (raised tank)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: Possibly: "MILLEGLI : ROBERTUS : MAGISTER LAPIDUM" [=1151 : Robertus, stonemaster" according to Rodolfi (2002: 170) --'signed by one Robertus' according to Schiller (1971: 140)

Inscription Location: Upper basin side

Inscription Text: "M[...]LI ROBERTUS MAGIST-LA-"

Inscription Source: Schiller (1971: 140); Rodolfi (2002: 170)

REFERENCES

"Dedalo", Dedalo, ?

Biehl, Walter, Toskanische Plastik des frühen und hohen Mittelalters, Leipzig: Verlag von E.A. Seemann, 1926

Calderoni Masetti, A.R., "Sul portico del San Martino a Lucca", Serie III, VIII/4, Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, 1978, pp. 1435-54; p. 1451-1452

Convegno Internazionale del IX Centenario della I Crociata, Verso Gerusalemme: II Convegno Internazionale nel IX Centenario della I Crociata, 1099-1999 (Bari, 11-13 gennaio 1999), Galatina: M. Congedo, 1999

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

Heydasch-Lehmann, Susanne, Der "Taufbrunnen" in San Frediano in Lucca und die Entwicklung der toskanischen Plastik in der 2. Hälfte des 12 Jahrhunderts, Frankfurt am Main, Bern, New York and Paris: P. Lang, 1991

Index of Medieval Art, The Index of Medieval Art, Index of Christian Art, Princeton, [s.d.]. URL: https://theindex.princeton.edu/.

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

Pudelko, Georg, Romanische Taufsteine, Berlin: Wurfel Verlag, 1932

Ridolfi, Enrico, Basiliche medioevali della città di Lucca: la guida inedita di Enrico Ridolfi (1828-1909), Cinisello Balsamo MIlano): Silvana, 2002

Schiller, Gertrud, Iconography of Christian Art, Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971

Silva, R., "Aspetti e problemi iconografici della scultura 'romanica' luchese", II, Actum Luce, 1973, pp. 81-101; p. 81-101

Silva, R., "La Basilica di San Frediano in Lucca", Urbanistica Archittetura (Arredo, Lucca, Maria Paccini Pazzi)

Zarnecki, George, Romanesque Art, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1971