Florence No. 2 / Firenze
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view of font and cover
Scene Description: [the font said to be by Andrea Pisano -- see entry for Firenze No. 3]
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Image Source: photograph taken by John Wilkes in April 2008
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view of baptistery interior - ceiling
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Image Source: photograph taken by John Wilkes in April 2008
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view of baptistery interior - ceiling
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Image Source: photograph taken by John Wilkes in April 2008
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view of baptistery exterior
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Image Source: photograph taken by John Wilkes in April 2008
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view of font in context
Scene Description: View (plant) of the Baptistery following the 1577 drawing by Bernardo Buontalenti, before its destruction in that year
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Pacini Editore Spa, 2002
Image Source: Garzelli (2002)
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 08048FIR
Object Type: Baptismal Font2
Font Date: 1197?
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th century (late), Romanesque
Church / Chapel Name: Opera di San Giovanni Battista
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. John the Baptist
Church Notes: a view of the interior of the baptistery can be found at http://firenze.arounder.com/florence_baptistry/VR000006156.html [accessed 10 April 2008]
Church Address: Piazza San Giovanni, 50122 Firenze FI, Italy -- Tel.: +39 055 230 2885
Site Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: The site is located just W of the cathedral
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Firenze
Font Notes:
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[to be researched] A baptismal font -immersion raised tank- of the type found at Pisa, Pistoia, etc., existed in this site until its destruction in 1557. A plan of the disappeared font exists in a drawing by Bernardo Buontalenti, reproduced in Garzelli (2002: fig. 1 on p. 6), who has worked in the possible reconstruction of this font using the said drawing as well as the mention of 'bettezzatori' in Dante's Inferno (canto 19, v. 13-21), which -Garzelli argues- could make reference to the inner wells found in the fonts of the old baptisteries at Pisa, Pistoia, etc.
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 681482 4849138
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.773056, 11.255
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 46′ 23″ N, 11° 15′ 18″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: raised tank, octagonal
Basin Interior Shape: octagonal
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
REFERENCES
- Garzelli, Annarosa, Il fonte del Battistero di Pisa: cavalli, arieti e grifi alle soglie di Nicola Pisano, Ospedaletto (Pisa): Pacini Editore, 2002, fig. 2 on p. 6