Ganaceto

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animal - fabulous animal or monster - harpy?

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Image Source: digital image in Simona Moretti's La sirena e l’acquasantiera nel Medioevo: un binomio difficile, in De Medio Aevo / e-ISSN: 2255-5889 [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/227440129.pdf] [accessed 2 April 2021]
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animal - fish

Scene Description: on one of the sides of the base
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Image Source: digital image in Simona Moretti's La sirena e l’acquasantiera nel Medioevo: un binomio difficile, in De Medio Aevo / e-ISSN: 2255-5889 [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/227440129.pdf] [accessed 2 April 2021]
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human figure - grotesque or fantastic - siren

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Image Source: digital image in Simona Moretti's La sirena e l’acquasantiera nel Medioevo: un binomio difficile, in De Medio Aevo / e-ISSN: 2255-5889 [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/227440129.pdf] [accessed 2 April 2021]
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mythical being

Scene Description: two others, unidentified
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Image Source: digital image in Simona Moretti's La sirena e l’acquasantiera nel Medioevo: un binomio difficile, in De Medio Aevo / e-ISSN: 2255-5889 [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/227440129.pdf] [accessed 2 April 2021]
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view of basin

Scene Description: the two holy-water stoups [cf. FontNotes]
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view of basin

Scene Description: the holy-water stoup at Ganaceto and the baptismal font in the baptistery of Cremona
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Image Source: digital image in Simona Moretti's La sirena e l’acquasantiera nel Medioevo: un binomio difficile, in De Medio Aevo / e-ISSN: 2255-5889 [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/227440129.pdf] [accessed 2 April 2021]
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view of stoup

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Image Source: digital image in Simona Moretti's La sirena e l’acquasantiera nel Medioevo: un binomio difficile, in De Medio Aevo / e-ISSN: 2255-5889 [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/227440129.pdf] [accessed 2 April 2021]
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view of stoup

Scene Description: the two stoups -- notice that the one in Ganaceto has a drain in the centre, since it is now used as a baptismal font
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Image Source: digital image in Simona Moretti's La sirena e l’acquasantiera nel Medioevo: un binomio difficile, in De Medio Aevo / e-ISSN: 2255-5889 [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/227440129.pdf] [accessed 2 April 2021]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 02333GAN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1 (basin only) [form. a stoup]
Church/Chapel: Pieve di San Giorgio Martire
Church Patron Saints: St. George
Church Location: Via Ganaceto, 105, 41121 Modena MO, Italy -- Tel.: +39 059 386022
Country Name: Italy
Location: Modena, Emilia-Romagna
Directions to Site: Located off the SP413, about 5 km N of the centre of Modena
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1130?
Century and Period: 12th century (early?), Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Maestro delle Metope? / Wiligelmo?
Cognate Fonts: Perhaps the holy-water stoup at Rubbiano
Church Notes: church documented 11thC
Font Notes:
This object, a former holy-water stoup now used as baptismal font at the pieve di San Giorgio, is believed to be of the 12th century and attributed to the 'Maestro delle Metope'. The stoup/font is round in the well proper, but with four (?) protruding roundels that coincide with the heads of the figures that decorate the basin sides; two of these are human heads, one of which is clearly a merman/mermaid, its body towards the left, overlapping the body of the next figure, also human, the upper part of the body winged as that of a harpy, though the faces of these two figures are regular and delicate; on the other sides, the heads are more beast-like, and on one of the sides is a large fish that rests on the bodies of the angle figures. The font has a flat cover with a cross finial; The base is quadrangular and unrelated to the basin. [sources: photograph by Giovanni Leoni on the cover of 'La linea longobarda' (Saratoga, CA: Anma libri, 1996); the font is also described and illustrated in 'L'art roman dans la province de Modène' (extrait du volume: P. Belloi - E. Colombini 'Itinerario romanico illustrato' (Modena, 1999)), in www.colombinieditore.it] [cf. Index entry for Rubbiano for a stoup perhaps related to this artist/workshop]. Described and illustrated in Simona Moretti's La sirena e l’acquasantiera nel Medioevo: un binomio difficile, in De Medio Aevo / e-ISSN: 2255-5889 [https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/227440129.pdf] [accessed 2 April 2021]: "Questo articolo indaga la presenza della sirena sull’acquasantiera nel Medioevo. L’esame è stato condotto sui casi conservati e oggi noti, tutti concentrati cronologicamente (XII secolo) e territorialmente (Italia del Nord). Si tratta del pezzo nella pieve romanica di San Giorgio a Ganaceto (non lontano da Modena), dell’acquasantiera nella pieve romanica di Santa Maria Assunta a Rubbiano, nel comune di Montefiorino (nell’Appenino modenese), e della pila lustrale nel battistero del duomo di Cremona. Lo studio [...] ha riesaminato invece l’iconografia, giungendo a ipotizzare che non sempre è possibile identificare i soggetti scolpiti con le sirene, come è stato fatto in passato. Appare invece opportuno riconoscervi esseri più mostruosi, come la lamia o l’arpia, forse per valorizzare maggiormente le qualità salvifiche dell’acqua benedetta. Anche sui fonti battesimali la sirena appare personaggio poco sfruttato, ma l’indagine in questo contesto è ancora da svolgere in maniera sistematica."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.6505415, -10.9260845
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 39' 2.0" N, 10° 55' 33.9" E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round (with heads)

LID INFORMATION

Date: unknown [probably modern]
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Linea longobarda, La, Saratoga, CA: ANMA Libri, 1996