Lucca No. 3

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Scene Description: detail of local posting

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of basin - interior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of basin - interior - drain

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of basin - side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of basin - side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of basin - side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: photograph in Garzelli (2002)

Copyright Instructions: PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE

view of church exterior - façade

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of church interior - detail

Scene Description: drainage conduit related to the font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of church interior - floor - mosaic

Scene Description: remains of the different levels of flooring

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of church interior - floor - mosaic

Scene Description: 12th-century baptistery floor mosaics

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of church interior - floor - mosaic

Scene Description: remains of the original floors of the 1st-century Roman domus beneath the baptistery

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: showing the different periods of the church, from Roman domus to the present

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of church interior - plan

Scene Description: legend for the plan

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of church interior - plan

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of font - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of font - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of font in context

Image Source: digital image of an illustration in Bond (1908)

Copyright Instructions: PD

view of font in context

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of font in context

Scene Description: sides and drainage

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of font in context

Scene Description: sides and drainage

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

view of font in context

Scene Description: sides and drainage

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 24, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 08054LUC

Church/Chapel: Chiesa di Santi Giovanni e Reparata

Church Patron Saints: St. John & St. Mary

Country Name: Italy

Location: Lucca, Toscana

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 5th century, Early Christian

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Illustrated in Bond (1908). Square immersion baptismal font of the "raised tank" type described and illustrated in Garzelli (2002); the plan is square with a round central depression that appears to have the drain hole; the floor surface of the inner well -except for the round depression- is ornamented with tiles or mosaic of geometrical design. The archaeological report posted in this church [25 June 2007] dates the original baptistery and font to the 5th century [although later alterations ensued -- the font stands in what had been the bath settings of a Roman 'domus' of the 1st century AD -- photographs of the latter are supplied within this record].

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: square (raised tank)

Basin Interior Shape: square

Basin Exterior Shape: square

REFERENCES

Bond, Francis, Fonts and Font Covers, London: Waterstone, 1985 c1908

Garzelli, Annarosa, Il fonte del Battistero di Pisa: cavalli, arieti e grifi alle soglie di Nicola Pisano, Ospedaletto (Pisa): Pacini Editore, 2002