Castiglione Olona

INFORMATION

FontID: 00918CAS
Church/Chapel: Baptistery of Chiesa di Villa (one of the towers of the old castle known as Collegiata).
Country Name: Italy
Location: Varese, Lombardia
Directions to Site: Castiglione Olona is a small town about 40 km northwest of Milan and 20 km south of the shore of the Lake of Lugano.
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Medieval
Cognate Fonts: S. Giovanni in Bragora in Venice and the font in the Carona Parish Church.
Church Notes: Baptistery murals painted by Masolino da Panicale.
Putti support the basin and a scene of St.John baptising Christ on the bowl.

COORDINATES

UTM: 32T 490926 5066278

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, type unknown

REFERENCES

Pulin, Carol, "Early Renaissance Sculpture and Architecture at Castiglione Olona in Northern Italy and the Patronage of a Humanist, Cardinal Branda Castiglione", 1984