Naples No. 1 / Nápoles / Napoli
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view of church exterior - façade
Scene Description: Source caption: "Facciata, Santa Maria di Portanova, Napoli"
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Image Source: digital photograph 30 May 2014 by Baku [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PortaNova.jpg] [accessed 8 November 2023]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 08049NAP
Church/Chapel: Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin / Chiesa di Santa Maria di Portanova
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Church Location: Via Portanova, 2, 80138 Napoli NA, Italy
Country Name: Italy
Location: Napoli, Campania
Directions to Site: The church is located in Piazza Portanova, off the Rettifilo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Roman [altered]
Church Notes: known in the 9thC as Santa Maria in Cosmedin; much modified since -- The church is 17th-century, but the font is one of two objects from the old temple which belonged to the Greek community on Naples and followed the Greek rite until the 13th century; it was rebuilt in 1629 by the Barnabiti [source: http://www.ept.napoli.it]
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Described in one source as a marble vat of Roman times converted into a baptismal font ["una vasca marmorea di età romana, adattata a fonte battesimale"] [source: http://www.ept.napoli.it]. The issue of esoarte.eu for 29 August 2011 [https://www.eosarte.eu/p-15971/] [accessed 8 November 2023] reports the theft of "una vasca sacra di epoca romana", presumably the same object noted above.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
40.846792,
14.25954
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
40° 50′ 48.45″ N,
14° 15′ 34.34″ E
UTM: 33T 4522014 437582
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble