Trebbio nr. Modena

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 05234TRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 9th century, Pre-Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Pieve di San Giovanni Battista
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: According to EmiliaRomagnaTurismo [www.emiliaromagnaturismo.it/en/locations/pieve-di-trebbio-mo/details?ID=1412] [accessed 2 February 2013]: "The Romanesque Parish Church of Trebbio is famous. Its foundation is attributed to Matilde di Canossa in the 12th C. on the site of a church dating back to the 8th and 9th centuries."
Site Location: Modena, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located 17 km from Vignola, 40 km from Modena, in the Comune di Guiglia, on the right banks of the Panaro river
Additional Comments: recycled / reconstructed font
Font Notes:
A number of fragments of a baptismal font, probably from the old building, were found and the font was reconstructed in the present baptistry. [source: 'L'art roman dans la province de Modène' (extrait du volume: P. Belloi - E. Colombini 'Itinerario romanico illustrato' (Modena, 1999)), in www.colombinieditore.it]. Another source describes it simply as a baptismal font said to be of the 9th century [source: www.regione.emilia-romagna.it/promappennino/guiglia.htm]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

  • Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, Catalunya romànica, Barcelona: Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana, 1984-, vol. xiii, p. 424