Venosa No. 2

Results: 2 records

B01: animal - mammal - lion - passant - 4?

Four passant lions, heads forming the corners, on the basin side
Scene Description: Four passant lions, heads forming the corners, on the basin side

BBU01: animal - mammal - lion - head - human figures stemming from the mouth

a man, on the left, and a woman, on the right, stem out of the mouth of a very Norman-looking lion's head
Scene Description: a man, on the left, and a woman, on the right, stem out of the mouth of a very Norman-looking lion's head

INFORMATION

FontID: 04911VEN
Object Type: Stoup
Church/Chapel: Abbazia della SS. Trinità
Church Patron Saints: The Holy Trinity
Country Name: Italy
Location: Potenza, Basilicata
Directions to Site: Located just NW of Potenza
Font Location in Church: Now [1988] in the atrium,; formerly at the right of the entrance
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Romanesque
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Garzya Romano (1988: 63 and pl. 7) as a large capital re-used as holy-water stoup and located now in the atrium of the abbey church; the visible area of the capital has a lion's head from whose mouth stem a woman (left) and a man (right), which Garzya Romano links to the Gospel of John's "et verbum caro factum est" (Ibid.); the area below is covered in lions "passant". She informs that the capital is from an anonymous artist and cites Grelle Iusco for the dating of late-11th or early-12th century, and for the belief that they may have belonged to the unfinished church (Ibid.)

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: capital
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Garzya Romano, Chiara, Calabre et Basilicate romanes, La Pierre-qui-Vire, Yonne: Zodiaque, 1988