Venice No. 1 / Venezia

INFORMATION

FontID: 00919SAN
Church/Chapel: Chiesa di S. Giovanni in Bragora
Church Patron Saints: St. John
Church Location: Campiello del Piovan, 3790, 30122 Venezia VE, Italy -- Tel.: +39 041 520 5906
Country Name: Italy
Location: Venezia, Veneto
Directions to Site: Located off the Canal Grande, corner of Strada Nuova and Rio di Noale
Font Location in Church: Off the Canal Grande, corner of Strada Nuova and Rio di Noale
Century and Period: 15th century, Late Gothic
Cognate Fonts: Castiglione Olona and Carona
Church Notes: church founded 8thC; re-built 9thC, 1178, late-15thC
Octagonal baptismal font of the 15th century in red marble; carries Gritti coat of arms. Pulin (1984: 269-276); Mehling (1988: 59)

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.4344, 12.347
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 26′ 3.84″ N, 12° 20′ 49.2″ E
UTM: 33T 292490 5034633

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (red) (basin) and pietra d'Istria (base)
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

REFERENCES

Phaidon, Venice and the Veneto: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Oxford: Phaidon, 1988
Pulin, Carol, "Early Renaissance Sculpture and Architecture at Castiglione Olona in Northern Italy and the Patronage of a Humanist, Cardinal Branda Castiglione", 1984