San Cosme No. 2 / San Cosme y Damián

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B01: design element - motifs - foliage

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LB01: design element - motifs - foliage

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R01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: it may have been originally a rope moulding but it is now too worn

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07821COS
Church/Chapel: Vieja Misión Jesuítica de San Cosme y Damián
Church Patron Saints: St. Cosmas & St. Damian
Country Name: Paraguay
Location: Itapúa, Oriental
Directions to Site: Located in the banks of the Parana river, about 45 km W of Encarnacion - access from the Ruta No. 1 Mcal Francisco Solano Lopez, then 25 km to San Cosme
Font Location in Church: Inside the teple
Date: ca. 1700?
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Illustrated in Baldotto & Paolillo (2004) as a baptismal font [probably of a composite nature]. The second of two baptismal fonts from the old Jesuit mission; described in the source as "patrimonio único de la humanidad" [source: http://www.taller.org.ar/expedicion/presa_lat_der.htm] [another such dated ca. 1706 is recorded in Trinidad del Parana].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: cauldron-shaped (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Baldotto, Gianni, Il Barocco nelle Missioni Guaranì: Provincia del Paraguay, 1609-1768, Biadene, Treviso: [Il Autore], 2004
Levinton, Norberto, "La arquitectura del pueblo de San Cosme y San Damián", La reducción jesuítica de santos Cosme y Damián: su historia, su economía y su arquitectura, Nürnberg: Fundación Paracuaria-Missionsprokur S.J. Nürnberg, 2003