Coeli-Aula
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 05013COE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at the S. Felicità di Faltona, is similarly shaped and ornamented
Church / Chapel Name: Pieve Santa Maria [now in the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea, in Montespertoli]
Font Location in Church: Located now in the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea, in Montespertoli
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Mary the Virgin
Site Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy, Europe
Additional Comments: recycled font: the font was moved from the church of Santa Maria in Coeli-Aula to the church of Sant'Andrea in nearby Montespertoli
Font Notes:
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Illustrated in Biehl (1926: Tafel 111b) as a polygonal (hexagonal?) baptismal font, probably of a date close to its cognate in Faltona (which is dated to 1157); 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. Felicità in Faltona) (Ibid., Tafeln 111b, 114a, b, 115b, c). According to the WEB site for Montespertoli, the font is now [October 2001] in the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea, in Montespertoli, having been moved there some time since Biehl [ca. 1926]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: polygonal, unmounted
Basin Exterior Shape: polygonal
REFERENCES
- 2001. [URL discontinued / non active]. URL: http://www.adactanet.it/dominimusei/montesp.html.
- 2001. [URL discontinued / non active]. URL: http://www.firenze.turismo.it/apt/dintorni/empolese.html.
- Biehl, Walter, Toskanische Plastik des frühen und hohen Mittelalters, Leipzig: Verlag von E.A. Seemann, 1926, Tafel 115b