Bisceglie / Biscéglie / Vescegghie
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Scene Description: Source caption: "fonte battesimale - ambito pugliese (fine/inizio secc. XI/ XII)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © ICCD, Ministero della Cultura, 2025
Image Source: digital image of a 1989 B&W photograph in the Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali [https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/1600040300] [accessed 4 April 2025]
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angel - holding objects - showing wings
Scene Description: The angel appears to be holding a torch
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
Apostle or saint - haloed
![No definite identification; St. Adoeno? St. John? [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/BIS0010103_compressed.png)
Scene Description: No definite identification; St. Adoeno? St. John? [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
Christ - haloed - right hand raised in benediction - left hand holding book
Scene Description: Facing front, torso only
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
animal - bird - eagle - holding book in its beak
Scene Description: In flight, moving/looking towards the right
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
view of church exterior - west façade
Scene Description: Source caption: "Bisceglie. Facciata della chiesa di S. Adoeno"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geppi Simone, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 12 October 2012 by Geppi Simone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bisceglie_Chiesa_Sant'Adoeno_7.JPG?uselang=it] [accessed 4 April 2025]
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Scene Description: Source caption: "Bisceglie. Chiesa di Sant'Adoeno. Fonte battesimale del XI secolo."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geppi Simone, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 12 October 2012 by Geppi Simone [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Bisceglie_Chiesa_Sant'Adoeno_18.JPG?uselang=it] [accessed 4 April 2025]
Copyright Instructions: GFDL / CC-BY-SA-3.0,2.5,2.0,1.0
design element - motifs - moulding
Scene Description: vertical and horizontal, brace-like
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Anne & Thomas Heck, 2000
Image Source: digital image of a photograph October 2000 by Anne & Thomas Heck
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the authors
INFORMATION
Font ID: 03479BIS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Date Visited: 2000-07-01
Font Century and Period/Style: 11th - 12th century (?), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Chiesa di Sant'Adoeno
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Owen [aka Audoen, Audoenus, Audoin, Dado, Ouen]
Church Notes: intra muros church built in 1074;
Church Address: Largo Sant'Adoeno, 70052 Bisceglie BA, Italy
Site Location: Barletta-Andria-Trani, Puglia, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off (N) the SS16 [aka via Giovanni Bovio], N of the SP13, about 20 km E of Andria, about 40 km WNW of Bari
Additional Comments: restored font
Font Notes:
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Listed and illustrated in the Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali [https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/1600040300] [accessed 4 April 2025]: " CODICE DI CATALOGO NAZIONALE 1600040300 [...] fonte battesimale - ambito pugliese (fine/inizio secc. XI/ XII) [...] Fusto modanato. Vasca decorata a bassorilievo". Chalice font with strong Byzantine influence. The church itself dates from 1074 but the font is probably from the 12th century. The basin has a narrow rim under which there are four sculptures (L->R): 1)an eagle (?) with a book in its beak; 2)torso of Christ, with crossed halo, right hand raised in benediction, the left holding a book; 3)haloed male figure holding object with right hand, the left holding his chasuble (?) [he may be S. Adoeno, the patron saint of the church, though Cosmai (1989) suggests John the Evangelist; he appears to be wearing a deacon's chasuble]; 4)angel showing its wings and holding an object [a torch?] with both hands. The stem of the base is quadrangular and has brace-like mouldings on the sides as ornamentation.
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Anne & Thomas Heck for their information on and photographs of this font
COORDINATES
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 41.240933, 16.502061
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 41° 14′ 27.36″ N, 16° 30′ 7.42″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, granite
Number of Pieces: three
Font Shape: chalice-shaped, hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Rim Thickness: 10 cm*
Diameter (inside rim): 103 cm*
Diameter (includes rim): 123 cm*
Basin Depth: 40 cm*
Basin Total Height: 55 cm*
Height of Base: 49 cm*
Font Height (less Plinth): 104 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * Anne & Thomas Heck for BSI (all measurements approximate).
REFERENCES
- Cosmai, Mario, Bisceglie turistica, Bari: Levante Editore, 1989, [unpaged]