Faltona / Faltona in Mugello, Santa Felicita a Larciano

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05012FAL
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1157?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at the S. Maria church, in Coeli-Aula, is similarly shaped and ornamented
Church / Chapel Name: Pieve di Santa Felicita
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Felicity
Church Notes: Originally the church of a 11th-century monastery. Visits are allowed after the Sunday 9 a.m. mass
Site Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the Mugello valey, in Faltona, near Borgo San Lorenzo
Font Notes:
Described and illustrated in Biehl (1926: 65, Tafel 111b) as a hexagonal (?) baptismal font dated to 1157; there is a protruding upper rim with a chamfer ornamented with a band of palmettes (?); the basin sides are square and framed, and are ornamented with geometrical compositions more often seen in mosaic work, although Biehl points out a series of other liturgical furnishings of the area bearing similar decor (the pulpits at Fagna, Signa S. Lorenzo, S. Giovanni Maggiore nr. Panicale, Panicale S. Maria, and on the baptismal font at the S. Maria church in Coeli-Aula) (Ibid., Tafeln 111a, 114a, b, 115b, c). Described and illustrated in Garzelli (2002: 12-13 and fig. 11 on p. 10). Noted in Kroesen and Steensma (2004) as an hexagonal baptismal font [raised tank] dated to 1157.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: raised tank, hexagonal
Basin Interior Shape: hexagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: hexagonal

REFERENCES

  • Biehl, Walter, Toskanische Plastik des frühen und hohen Mittelalters, Leipzig: Verlag von E.A. Seemann, 1926, p. 65, Tafel 111b
  • Garzelli, Annarosa, Il fonte del Battistero di Pisa: cavalli, arieti e grifi alle soglie di Nicola Pisano, Ospedaletto (Pisa): Pacini Editore, 2002, p. 12-13 and fig. 11 on p. 10
  • Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004, p. 329