Florence No. 2 / Firenze

Image copyright © John Wilkes, 2008
Standing permission
Results: 5 records
view of baptistery exterior
view of baptistery interior - ceiling
view of baptistery interior - ceiling
view of font and cover
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
FontID: 08048FIR
Church/Chapel: Opera di San Giovanni Battista
Church Patron Saints: St. John the Baptist
Country Name: Italy
Location: Firenze, Toscana
Font Location in Church: [disappeared]
Date: 1197?
Century and Period: 12th century (late), Romanesque
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]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
[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.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (raised tank)
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