Faltona / Faltona in Mugello, Santa Felicita a Larciano
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Scene Description: a different one on each side
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Image Source: Garzelli (2002)
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pacini Editore Spa, 2002
Image Source: Garzelli (2002)
Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
INFORMATION
FontID: 05012FAL
Church/Chapel: Pieve di Santa Felicita
Church Patron Saints: St. Felicity
Country Name: Italy
Location: Firenze, Toscana
Directions to Site: Located in the Mugello valey, in Faltona, near Borgo San Lorenzo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Date: ca. 1157?
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at the S. Maria church, in Coeli-Aula, is similarly shaped and ornamented
Church Notes: Originally the church of a 11th-century monastery. Visits are allowed after the Sunday 9 a.m. mass
Font Notes: Click to view 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: hexagonal (raised tank]
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
Garzelli, Annarosa, Il fonte del Battistero di Pisa: cavalli, arieti e grifi alle soglie di Nicola Pisano, Ospedaletto (Pisa): Pacini Editore, 2002
Kroesen, Justin E.A., The Interior of the medieval village church = Het middeleeuwse Dorpskerkinterieur, Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters, 2004