Vicchio
Results: 4 records
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08053VIC
Object Type: Stoup?
Font Century and Period/Style: 13th century, Medieval
Museum: Museo Beato Angelico di Arte Sacra di Vicchio, Vicchio
Church / Chapel Name: Chiesa di San Niccolò a Rossoio [disappeared]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Nicholas
Previous Font Location(s): Chiesa di San Niccolò a Rossoio vicino a Vicchio [cf. FontNotes]
Church Notes: original church destroyed
Church Address: [NB: address & coordinates given for the museum] Piazza Don Milani, 50039 Vicchio FI, Italy -- Tel.: +39 055 844 8251
Site Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Vicchio is located in the Mugello valley, 25 km NE of Florence capital. Rossoio was a hamlet in Vicchio
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Firenze
Additional Comments: disused stoup (in a museum)
Font Notes:
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An old monolithic baptismal font or stoup; the cylindrical basin is ornamented on one side with a kneeling (?) figure stretching its arm toward an angel with the wings folded; also on the sides: an angel with open wings, a bird passant to the left; a moulding separates the basin from the pedestal base [reported in the source as being in the Museo di Arte Sacra di Vicchio; without provenance [cf. infra] -- source with illustration of the object: http://w3.newnet.it/filo/articoli/culturastoria/arte/musei/museovicchio.htm]. Also illustrated in the museum web site [https://www.comune.vicchio.fi.it/vivere-il-comune/luoghi/museo-di-arte-sacra-beato-angelico] [accessed 25 May 2025], where the stoup is identified as being originally from the Chiesetta del Rossoio, made of marble in the 13th century. The web site of the municipality of Vicchio [https://www.comune.vicchio.fi.it/vivere-il-comune/luoghi] [accessed 25 May 2025] notes the original object as "acquasantiera duecentesca della chiesa di San Niccolò a Rossoio". Detail photographs of the stoup taken 6 August 2017 by Sailko
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_05.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_04.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_03.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_02.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_01.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_05.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_04.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_03.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_02.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Acquasantiera_da_s._niccolò_a_rossoio,_xiii_secolo,_01.jpg [accessed 25 May 2025]
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 697986 4867426
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 43.933333, 11.466667
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 43° 56′ 0″ N, 11° 28′ 0″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: cylindrical, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round