Vicofertile

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B01: cleric - with processional cross in right hand - with censer in left hand - consecration of the baptismal font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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B02: cleric - 2 - holding book - consecration of the baptismal font

Scene Description: cleric on the left is the officiating priest; cleric on the right is an accolite; the two clerics hold the book together, the priest with his left hand (his right hand raised in benediction), the accolite with both hands

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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B03: cleric - tonsured - with candle - consecration of the baptismal font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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B04: cleric - tonsured - with candle - consecration of the baptismal font

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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information

Scene Description: posted in the church

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of basin - detail

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of basin - east side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of basin - north side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of basin - south side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of basin - west side

Scene Description: [NB: orientation is approximate]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of church exterior - northwest view

Scene Description: Source caption; "Pieve di San Geminiano (Vicofertile) - fianco nord"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 April 2018 by Parma1983 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieve_di_San_Geminiano_(Vicofertile)_-_fianco_nord_2018-04-21.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2021]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption; "Pieve di San Geminiano (Vicofertile) - facciata"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 21 April 2018 by Parma1983 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pieve_di_San_Geminiano_(Vicofertile)_-_facciata_(1)_2018-04-21.jpg] [accessed 30 September 2021]

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view of church interior - nave - detail

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of font and cover

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 30 September 2021)

view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: at the west end of the north aisle

Image Source: digital photograph taken 18 August 2014 by Juan Antonio Olañeta

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view of font and cover in context

Scene Description: partially showingthe font in the bottom left corner of the image

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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view of font in context

Image Source: digital photograph September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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INFORMATION

FontID: 07950VIC

Church/Chapel: Chiesa Parrocchiale di San Geminiano / Pieve di San Geminiano

Church Patron Saints: St. Geminianus

Church Location: Via Roma - 86 - Vicofertile - Parma - PR - 43126, Italy -- Tel.: +39 0521672759

Country Name: Italy

Location: Parma, Emilia-Romagna

Directions to Site: Located about 6 km SW Parma

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Parma

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, W end of N aisle

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century, Late Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Giorgio Zanetti, of Toronto, Canada, for bringing this font to our attention; and to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, and Angeles Leal Arroyo for their photographs of this church and font

Church Notes: Church Hours: open every day from 8.00am to 7.00pm. Services weekdays at 6.00pm; Saturday at 7.00pm; Sunday at 11.00am. Prices: free entrance

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Conical [roughly] mounted baptismal font of the 12th century; the polished and otherwise plain exterior has five large figures in four groups: 1)a tonsured cleric faces forward holding a procession cross in his right hand and a thurible/censer in his left; 2)a tonsured cleric holds a large candle in his left hand; 3)a tonsured cleric holds a large candle in both his hands; 4) two clerics, the one on the left dressed wearing a chasuble (?), hold up a book. The figures protrude from the rest of the surface of the basin in what is obviously a representation of the consecration of the font/waters [NB: Three fonts from the Burgos province of Spain are claimed to represent this scene: Cillamayor, Renedo de Valdavia and Valdeande, the last two with illustrated entries in this Index]. The base is a short roughly cylindrical pedestal. A replica copy of this font was recently installed and can be seen at the MUSEO DIOCESANO DI PARMA (in Piazza Duomo, Parma); the Italian text that follows is from the Museo's web site [www.cattedralediparma.it/museo_collezione_det.php?ID=59]] [accessed 13 October 2014]: "Nella prima sala del Museo Diocesano è di recente arrivato il calco del fonte battesimale della chiesa parrocchiale di Vicofertile. E’ una vasca del XIII secolo a forma di coppa di 118 cm. di diametro e alta 70 cm. da cui emergono cinque figure scolpite tutte legate alla celebrazione del Sabato Santo, vigilia della Pasqua, caratterizzato dalla benedizione del cero, del fuoco e dell’acqua. Sull’esterno del fonte sono raffigurati due accoliti che incedono solennemente reggendo il cero pasquale ed un altro che tiene con la destra la croce astile e porta con la sinistra un turibolo per bruciare l’incenso. Le altre due figure sono un presbitero vestito di camice e casula con le braccia levate in preghiera e la mano destra benedicente con un chierico che gli sorregge il libro liturgico. Questo fonte e i personaggi in esso rappresentati ci ricordano che, fino a tutto il medioevo, l’amministrazione del battesimo era riservata alle vigilie di Pasqua e Pentecoste, che aprivano e chiudevano il tempo liturgico della vittoria di Cristo sulla morte. In città il Vescovo amministrava il sacramento nel battistero cittadino, mentre nelle pievi disseminate sul territorio diocesano era l’arciprete a capo di ciascuna di esse a benedire l’acqua del fonte, che di solito era collocato all’interno della pieve, ed a presiedere la cerimonia di battesimo. Il fonte oggi al museo è una copia che serve da testimone cittadino delle ricchezze del nostro territorio e del patrimonio di fede e arte che possiamo scoprire visitando moltissimi luoghi della nostra provincia e in questo caso la pieve recentemente restaurata di Vicofertile, in cui si trova il fonte originale"

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.784583, 10.257879

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 47' 5.79" N, 10° 15' 27.01" E

UTM: 32T 599511 4959790

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: conical (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

Diameter (includes rim): 118 cm*

Font Height (less Plinth): 70 cm*

Notes on Measurements: * Museo Diocesano di Parma [www.cattedralediparma.it/museo_collezione_det.php?ID=59]] [accessed 13 October 2014]

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern

Material: wood,

Apparatus: no

Notes: round and flat, with moulded edge