Vigolo Marchese
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B01: design element - motifs - foliage
Scene Description: all over the capital sides
INFORMATION
FontID: 07710GIG
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church
Country Name: Italy
Location: Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna
Directions to Site: Located 8 km W of Castell'Arquato, in the Arda river valley
Font Location in Church: In the "baptistery" area, the rotunda, at the centre of the circle of columns
Century and Period: 1st - 3rd century (recarved in the 11th century?), Roman [altered]
Font Notes:
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A large capital of imperial Rome origin which was later (11th century?) re-cycled as baptismal font; it is decorated with foliage motif [source: www.comune.piacenza.it -- a partial view of the font appears in Il Mediterraneo e l'arte nel Medioevo (Milano: Jaca, 2000): 105]. This locality has a baptistery building dated to 1008.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: capital-shaped
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: capital