Brigue / La Brigue-de-Nice / La Briga Marittima

INFORMATION

FontID: 04054BRI

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Eglise Saint-Martin

Church Patron Saints: St. Martin of Tours

Country Name: France

Location: Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Directions to Site: Located 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]

Date: 1575

Century and Period: 16th century(late), Renaissance

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-))

Font Notes: Click to view

Described in the Dictionnaire des églises... (1966-) as a 1575 marble font covered with a conical baldaquin of gilded and painted wood.

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-