Roma No. 10 / Vaticano

INFORMATION

Font ID: 05539ROM
Object Type: Baptistery
Font Century and Period/Style: Early Christian
Site Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Font Notes:
Bond (1908: 23): "Pope Leo III (*795-816) is recorded to have enlarged the 'fons' of S. Andrea Apostolo at Rome, and to have constructed round it a colonnade of columns of porphyry".

REFERENCES

  • Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908, p. 23