Venice No. 2 / Venezia
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B01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: on the outer areas of the font
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Image Source: Speltz (1994 c1910: 129 pl. 65 fig. 2)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]
Image Source: Speltz (1994 c1910: 129 pl. 65 fig. 2)
Copyright Instructions: PD
INFORMATION
Font ID: 02587VEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th - 16th century, Renaissance
Museum: Palazzo Vendramin / Ca' Vendramin Calergi
Church / Chapel Name: [not a church]
Church Notes: The Palazzo Vendramin-Calergi, the Venice Casino, was built between 1481 and 1509.
Church Address: C. Seconda del Cristo, 2040, 30121 Venezia VE, Italy -- Tel.: +39 041 529 7230
Site Location: Venezia, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located on the Canal Grande, between S. Marcuola and St. Staé
Font Notes:
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A drawing of this font in Speltz (1994 c1910: 129 pl. 65 fig. 2) shows a font of late Byzantine ornament; like the Palazzo itself, the font probably is dated to the late 15th century. The outer shape is square, though it is really a cylindrical shape housed in a square arcade; the inner cylinder is profusely decorated with foliage, as are the round arches and the capitals; the columns themselves, four larger ones at the corners and four more slender in between, are all plain and non-constructional. The whole rests on a short plinth.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33T 291168 5035546
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.442222, 12.329722
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 26′ 32″ N, 12° 19′ 47″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, type unknown
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Exterior Shape: square
REFERENCES
- Phaidon, Venice and the Veneto: a Phaidon Cultural Guide, Oxford: Phaidon, 1988, p. 78 (for the Palazzo)
- Runes, Dagobert D., Enciclopedia de las artes, Barcelona: Argos, [s.d.], vol. 2: 501
- Speltz, Alexander, Styles of Ornament: a Pictorial Survey of Six Thousand Years of Ornamental Design, New York: Gramercy Books, 1994(c1910), p. 129, pl. 65, fig. 2