Brigue / La Brigue-de-Nice / La Briga Marittima
INFORMATION
Font ID: 04054BRI
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1575
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century(late), Renaissance
Church / Chapel Name: Église paroissiale [ancienne collégiale] Saint-Martin de La Brigue
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Martin of Tours
Church Notes: The church building dates originaly from the 12th century. The Chapelle Notre-Dame-des-Fontaines, also in La Brigue, is decorated with an extraordinary set of mural paintings done at the end of the 15th century by Jean Canavesio (or Canavesi), a priest (?) from Pignerol in Piemonte (Source: Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-)) -- church listed in Mérimée [ref.: 14e siècle ; 1ère moitié 15e siècle"
Church Address: Pl. Saint-Martin, 06430 La Brigue, France
Site Location: Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the D43, about 48 kms NE of Nice, 11 kms S of the Tenda Pass and the Italian border [NB: this town was part of Italy until 1947]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Nice
Font Notes:
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Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) as a 1575 marble font covered with a conical baldaquin of gilded and painted wood.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 388974 4879788
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 44.06285, 7.613725
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 44° 3′ 46.26″ N, 7° 36′ 49.41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
LID INFORMATION
Material: wood
Notes: [cf. Font notes]
REFERENCES
- Dictionnaire des églises de France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse, Paris: R. Laffont, 1966-, II D 47