Parma No. 1

Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018

Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 October 2018)

Results: 10 records

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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design element - motifs - foliage

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018

Image Source: digital image taken in October 2018 by Lynne Kutsukake

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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 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 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

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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view of font and cover

Scene Description: the painted inscription on the cover is legible here

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

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lynne Kutsukake, 2018

Image Source: digital image taken in October 2018 by Lynne Kutsukake

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 18 October 2018)

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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INFORMATION

FontID: 02347PAR
Church/Chapel: Battistero di Parma
Church Location: Piazza Duomo, 43121 Parma PR, Italy
Country Name: Italy
Location: Parma, Emilia-Romagna
Directions to Site: Located in the old town centre, near the Duomo/cathedral, just S of it
Font Location in Church: Inside the baptistery, to a side
Date: 1196 to 1220?
Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Master Benedetto Antelami
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Montserrat Estela for the added notes, and to Lynne Kutsukake for her photographs of this font
Church Notes: Baptistery commissioned 1196; paintings of 13th and 14thC;
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]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.803056, 10.330278
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 48′ 11″ N, 10° 19′ 49″ E
UTM: 32T 605205 4961933

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
Carlsson, Frans, The Iconology of Tectonics in Romanesque Art, Hässleholm: AM-Tryck, 1976
Poeschke, Joachim, Skulptur des Mittelalters in Italien, Munich: Hirmer Verlag, 1998
Schiller, Gertrud, Iconography of Christian Art, Greenwich, Conn.: New York Graphic Society, 1971