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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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Baldotto & Paolillo, 2004
Image Source: photograph in Baldotto & Paolillo (2004)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 07821COS
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: ca. 1700?
Font Century and Period/Style: 17th - 18th century, Baroque
Church / Chapel Name: Vieja Misión Jesuítica de San Cosme y Damián
Font Location in Church: Inside the teple
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Cosmas & St. Damian
Site Location: Itapúa, Oriental, Paraguay, Central America
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
Additional Comments: e-mail sent requesting info; reply of 17/3/2003 with contact in Paraguay; request sent to new contact [cf. file "San Cosme y Damian" -- April 10, 2003: no reply]
Font Notes:
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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, p. 189
- 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, p. 273