Coeli-Aula

Results: 6 records

B01: animal - 2

Scene Description: two unidentified animals, standing on their hind legs, forming a composition with foliage inside a circle (on one of the basin sides)

B02: design element - motifs - quatrefoil - in a circle

Scene Description: the lines of the circle go through the loops of the tetrafoil

B03: design element - motifs - zigzag

Scene Description: a short band, below the tetrafoil, on the same basin side

B04: design element - motifs - geometric

Scene Description: looking like a six-arm Maltese cross

B05: design element - patterns - floral

Scene Description: tulip-like motif repeated as pattern all over the frames of the basin sides

B06: design element - patterns - floral

Scene Description: another floral pattern, six-petal and four-petal, on the space between the frame and the nmain motif on the basin sides

INFORMATION

FontID: 05013COE
Church/Chapel: Pieve Santa Maria [now in the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea, in Montespertoli]
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Italy
Location: Firenze, Toscana
Font Location in Church: Located now in the Chiesa di Sant'Andrea, in Montespertoli
Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: The font at the S. Felicità di Faltona, is similarly shaped and ornamented
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