Verona No. 2

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view of church exterior - southeast view

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2016 by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rear_view_and_campanile_-_San_Zeno_-_Verona_2016_(corrected).jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Image Source: digital photograph tane 29 December 2019 by Adert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_di_San_Zeno_VR_2c.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail

Scene Description: one of two stylophore lions at the west entranceway

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2019 by Lo Scaligero [Andrea Bertozzi] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_di_San_Zeno_09.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum

Image Source: digital photograph tane 31 December 2019 by Adert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_di_San_Zeno_VR_5.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church exterior in context - southwest view

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph tane 29 December 2019 by Adert [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_di_San_Zeno_a_Verona_.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church interior - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2019 by Lo Scaligero [Andrea Bertozzi] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_di_San_Zeno_13.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church interior - looking southwest

Scene Description: the font is partially discernible at the far [west] end of the left [south] aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2011 by Mattana [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Verona,_Basilica_di_San_Zeno,_interior_001.JPG] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of church interior - west end - detail

Scene Description: showing one of the large font-size stoups in the foreground

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2019 by Lo Scaligero [Andrea Bertozzi] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_di_San_Zeno_17.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of font

Scene Description: said to be a 'vasca lustrale' [offerings font or basin] originally from the Roman 'terme' [baths] -- at some point it was mounted on the present pedestal base -- we have no information on whether it was ever used for baptisms or not

Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 October 2016 by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baptismal_font_-_San_Zeno_-_Verona_2016.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 23 December 2019 by Lo Scaligero [Andrea Bertozzi] [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_di_San_Zeno_16.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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view of font cover - finial

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph taken 19 February 2008 by sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Basilica_di_san_zeno,_affresco_01.JPG] [accessed 27 February 2020]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 05479VER

Church/Chapel: Chiesa di San Zeno Maggiore / Basilica di San Zeno / Zenone

Church Patron Saints: St. Zeno [aka Zenone, d.371, bishop of Verona]

Church Location: Piazza San Zeno, 2, 37123 Verona VR, Italy -- Tel.: +39 045 800 6120

Country Name: Italy

Location: Verona, Veneto

Directions to Site: San Zeno is located in Piazza San Zeno. Verona is just E of the SE tip of Lake Garda

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Verona

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the S aisle, W end

Century and Period: 13th century, Late Romanesque / Transitional?

Church Notes: construction started mid-11thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Nordström (1984) mentions an octagonal baptismal font in this church. There are two fonts and a number of font-size holy-water stoups inside this basilica. The octagonal font, located at the west end of the south aisle is an octagonal tank-type font, the sides vertical and decorated with an arcade of round arches of which only the ones at the angles have columnar supports; these columns have capitals and base, the stems themselves decorated a variety of patterns; there are mouldings at the lower end of the basin sides. The finial of the octagonal font cover is large statue [Christ?] holding a cross with banner. The other 'font' is said to be Roman and made of pophyry; that appears to be the material of large round basin, but the base is a round pedestal of a later date and different material [marble?]; it has been described as a 'vasca lustrale' [offerings basin] and said to have originated in the 'terme' of the city: "Sotto la navata di sinistra è collocata una grande coppa in porfido rosso, un monolite del diametro di quasi tre metri, proveniente, come il piatto della fontana di Piazza delle Erbe, dalle terme romane della città (II sec. d.C.). Il grande bacino, quand’era collocato nel suo ambiente originale, all’ esterno della basilica, serviva per le abluzioni d’acqua, era un labrum lustrale. Come ricorda Pierpaolo Brugnoli, la coppa di San Zeno aveva fatto bella mostra di sé nel vasto sagrato esistente fra la basilica e la chiesa di San Procolo. Era collocata all’ aperto, e così viene rilevata anche in varie mappe di Verona e vedute della piazza di San Zeno. Sistemazione anche questa non occasionale – come annotano gli storici – dato che, nei pressi delle basiliche, anche di quelle paleocristiane, venivano collocate vasche d’acqua per le abluzioni rituali, sostituite poi dalle pile dell’acqua santa poste all’interno dei luoghi di culto. Già il Maffei, a questo proposito, precisa: “Lasciando le favole popolari, già che ogni paese ha le sue, questa gran conca stava lateralmente nella piazza, ch’ è innanzi la Basilica secondo l’uso antico. Di tal uso scopresi nell’Esodo la prima origine, dove comanda il Signore di collocare avanti il tempio un gran vaso di bronzo, perché si lavassero mani e piedi i Sacerdoti prima di entrarvi. Così Salomone fece per uso nel tempio di vasca rotonda, che per l’ampiezza si disse mare”. [www.veja.it/2012/09/21/verona-chiesa-di-san-zeno-la-grande-vasca-lustale-di-porfido/] [accessed 27 February 2020]. [NB: we have no information on whether or not this font was ever used for baptisms].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.4425, 10.979167

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 26′ 33″ N, 10° 58′ 45″ E

UTM: 32T 654783 5034014

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

REFERENCES

Nordström, Folke, Mediaeval Baptismal Fonts: An Iconographical Study, Stockholm: Universitetet i Umeå, 1984