Canossa

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Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Mark - symbol - winged lion - with book

Image Source: digital photograph by Alessando Garbasi

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 November 2014)

Apostle or saint - Evangelists - St. Matthew - symbol - angel - with book

Image Source: Antonella, of www.matildedicanossa.it

Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 23/4/2003)

animal - reptile - snake - coiled

Scene Description: to the right of the winged lion with the book

Image Source: digital photograph by Alessando Garbasi

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 November 2014)

design element - motifs - floral - rosette - 6-petal

Scene Description: several [four?]: one to the right of the angel's head; another by the rear leg of the winged ox; another above the coiled serpent's head

Image Source: digital photograph by Alessando Garbasi

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 November 2014)

design element - motifs - vine - acanthus

Image Source: digital photograph by Alessando Garbasi

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 November 2014)

view of font

Image Source: Luca Giordani, of Bologna, Italy [www.studiogiove.org]

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail from Giorgio Zanetti, 21/3/2003)

view of font

Image Source: digital photograph by Alessando Garbasi

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 November 2014)

view of iconographic program - detail?

Scene Description: where is John's eagle?

Image Source: digital photograph by Alessando Garbasi

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 28 November 2014)

INFORMATION

FontID: 07948CAN

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo del Castello di Canossa

Church/Chapel: Chiesa della Badia di Sant'Apollonio di Canossa (?) [now in the Museo del Castello]

Church Location: Castello di Canossa -- Tel./Fax 0522.877104 -- E-mail: info@castellodicanossa.it -- www.castellodicanossa.it/

Country Name: Italy

Location: Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna

Directions to Site: Located near Reggio

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese di Ravenna [originally in the Diocese di Reggio]

Font Location in Church: [in a museum] [the font is located in the "Salone centrale" of the museum]

Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: the font at San Polo d'Enza? [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Giorgio Zanetti, of Toronto, Canada, for bringing this font to our attention; to Luca Giordani, of Bologna, Italy [www.studiogiove.org], for his image of the same; to Antonella, of www.matildedicanossa.it and to Alessandro Garbasi for their photographs of this font

Church Notes: "chiesa di S. Apollonio a Canossa [...] eretta [da Adalberto Azzo] forse già dal 961, fu dedicata nel 971 [...] approvata il 29 dic. 975 da Benedetto VII" [source: www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/adalberto-azzo-di-canossa_(Dizionario_Biografico)] [accessed 29 November 2014]

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Beautiful tub-shaped, almost cylindrical, font; the upper rim of the basin has a broad roll moulding decorated with an acanthus (?) vine; the sides of the basin are decorated with a winged figure holding an open book; to the left is a winged ox holding an open book; to the right is a lion [no wings visible] holding an open book; farther to the right is a coiled serpent facing left; a 6-petal rosette is right above the serpent's mouth; one other such floral motif is located at the hind leg of the winged ox; to the left of this are a pair of facing beasts, perhaps lions, the one on the left winged; on the lower left side of the basin is a human head with an acanthus vine stemming from the mouth; the vine appears to continue rightwards beneath the angel [cf. supra] in a minimal form, and sprouts again on the right side of the angel. One would assume these figures are representations of three Evangelists [NB: we have not been able to located John's eagle in the programme yet -- are we missing part of it?]. The museum web page [www.comune.canossa.re.it/Sezione.jsp?titolo=Museo+Nazionale+di+Canossa&idSezione=100] [accessed 29 November 2014] notes: "fonte battesimale romanico che è conservato nel salone centrale. Il manufatto, ricavato da un monolite d’arenaria, è riccamente ornato da intrecci, raffigurazioni simboliche, fasce ed altri elementi tipici del repertorio scultoreo medievale. Si presuppone che questo fonte battesimale appartenesse all’antica badia di Sant’Apollonio." Garbasi [www.vallideltermina.it/Pag_Pub_Mp_Nr_35_2.html] [accessed 29 November 2014] points to similarities and differenzes with the font at the Pieve di San Pietro in San Polo d'Enza.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.576, 10.456

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 34′ 33.6″ N, 10° 27′ 21.6″ E

UTM: 32T 615598 4936882

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, sandstone

Number of Pieces: one

Font Shape: tub-shaped

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Drainage Notes: no lining