Avignon No. 1
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coat of arms - Antoine Flores
Scene Description: a/p Corblet's and the Dictionnaire des... (1966-) identification; Flores was bishop of Avignon 1503-1512.
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Image Source: edited detail of a photograph taken 11 June 2001 by BSI
design element - architectural - column - columns with capitals and bases - 6
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design element - motifs - floral, foliage and fruit
Scene Description: a horn of plenty, etc.
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information
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Image Source: field notes taken 11 June 2001 by BSI
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information
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Image Source: field notes taken 11 June 2001 by BSI
Copyright Instructions: IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
view of church exterior - southwest view
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Image Source: photograph taken 11 June 2001 by BSI
view of font and cover
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Image Source: photograph taken 11 June 2001 by BSI
INFORMATION
FontID: 02513AVI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Cathédrale Notre-Dame-des-Doms
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Place du Palais, 84000 Avignon, France -- Tel.: +33 4 90 82 12 21
Country Name: France
Location: Vaucluse, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Directions to Site: The northernmost building of the Palais de Papes area; up the stairs going left from the palace square
Ecclesiastic Region: Archidiocèse d'Avignon
Font Location in Church: The font is located just inside the entrance, to the right.
Century and Period: 16th century(early?), Renaissance
Church Notes: Enlart's reference cites "Notre-Dame-des-Doms et Carmes d'Avignon", although the cathedral (Notre-Dame-des-Doms) and les Carmes (the "Cloître des Carmes") are different buildings in different areas of Avignon. The font in question is at the cathedral. -- original church ca. 1150 listed in Mérimée [ref.: PA00081814]
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font "sans support ... selon le modele antique" (Chastel, 1966, p. 287). Enlart (1902) includes it in a group of Renaissance fonts, unmounted and octagonal. Corblet (1881-1882) describes it as a hexagonal basin ornamented with rich foliage and the coat of arms of Antoine Florès, bishop of Avignon (1503-1512), which would date it to the early 16th century; tha coat of arms emblem confirmed in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-). On-site notes: the baptismal font at the cathedral of Avignon
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 43.950833, 4.813333
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 43° 57′ 3″ N, 4° 48′ 48″ E
UTM: 31T 645503 4868010
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: hexagonal (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal
Rim Thickness: 18-26 cm
Diameter (inside rim): 70 cm
Basin Depth: 43 cm
Basin Total Height: 74 cm
Height of Base: 52 cm
Font Height (less Plinth): 126 cm
Trapezoidal Basin: 106-121 cm (hexagonal)
Notes on Measurements: BSI on-site
LID INFORMATION
Date: modern
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: hexagonal flat and plain; modern
REFERENCES
Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-
Chastel, André, Histoire générale des Églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, France: Robert Laffont, 1966
Corblet, Jules, Histoire dogmatique, liturgique et archéologique du sacrement de baptême, Paris: V. Palme, 1881-1882
Enlart, Camille, Manuel d'archéologie française depuis les temps mérovingiens jusqu'à la Renaissance, Paris: Alphonse Picard & fils, 1902