Parma No. 1
Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 October 2018)
Results: 10 records
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018
Image Source: digital image taken in October 2018 by Lynne Kutsukake
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: the painted inscription on the cover is legible here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Charles Amos Cummings' A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1901) [www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14597469228/] [accessed 20 October 2018]
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design element - motifs - foliage
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Veduta notturna del Duomo e del Battistero di Parma."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Filippo Aneli, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 20 August 2009 byFilippo Aneli [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piazza_Duomo_Parma_2009-08.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2018]
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view of church exterior
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Georg Schelbert, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 9 August 2009 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Parma_Battistero_GS_P1010451_c.JPG] [accessed 19 October 2018]
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view of church exterior in context
Scene Description: the Duomo on the left, the Battistero on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carlo Ferrari, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken 19 May 2004 by Carlo Ferrari [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duomo_e_Battistero_di_Parma.jpg] [accessed 19 October 2018]
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view of church interior - baptistery - detail
Scene Description: interesting double baptism scene in a font similar to the actual font here: a king wearing only his crown is baptised by the bishop on the left, while an infant is baptised by a cleric on the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018
Image Source: digital image taken in October 2018 by Lynne Kutsukake
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view of font and cover in context
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018
Image Source: digital image taken in October 2018 by Lynne Kutsukake
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animal - mammal - lion - head - with prey in its jaws
Scene Description: Beautiful crouching lion holds an animal head between its front paws and has bird(s) on its back
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018
Image Source: digital image taken in October 2018 by Lynne Kutsukake
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 02347PAR
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1196 to 1220?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Benedetto Antelami
Church / Chapel Name: Battistero di Parma
Font Location in Church: Inside the baptistery, to a side
Church Notes: Baptistery commissioned 1196; paintings of 13th and 14thC;
Church Address: Piazza Duomo, 43121 Parma PR, Italy
Site Location: Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the old town centre, near the Duomo/cathedral, just S of it
Additional Comments: The lion which makes the base of the font is very similar to another that sits near the chancel of Parma Cathedral (Poeschke, 1998, Abt. 78, p.125)
Font Notes:
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Described and and illustrated in Poeschke (1998: 133 and Taf. 127): beautiful font of Veronese marble, dated to between 1196 and 1220. The basin bears very sophisticated but shallow carving of vegetal motif; the lower part of the basin sides and the underbowl are totally plain, the underbowl tapering to a narrow cylindrical stump on which it meets the base. The base, more magnificent than the basin, is a large couchant lion; the front paws hold an animal head between them; on the middle of its back the stump on which the basin rests is adorned with carved birds (?). The font, like most of the baptistery itself, is the work of master Benedetto Antelami. The flat cover is wooden and has an inscription painted on it: SPIRITVS INTUS ALIT. [cf. Index entry for Parma No. 2 for the main raised baptismal font of this baptistery]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela for the added notes, and to Lynne Kutsukake for her photographs of this font
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 605205 4961933
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 44.803056, 10.330278
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 44° 48′ 11″ N, 10° 19′ 49″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (from Verona)
Number of Pieces: two
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
REFERENCES
- Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 26, 29
- Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976, p. 127 and pl. 199
- Poeschke, Joachim, Skulptur des Mittelalters in Italien, Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 1998, p. 133 and Taf. 127
- Schiller, Gertrud, Iconography of Christian Art, Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971, p. 140