Vicenza
INFORMATION
Font ID: 08116VIC
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Font Century and Period/Style: 7th century, Early Christian
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Rodoaldo?
Museum: Museo Diocesano, Vicenza
Church / Chapel Name: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Annunciata / Duomo di Vicenza
Font Location in Church: In the first chapel of the S side [Museo Diocesano]
Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary the Virgin
Church Address: Piazzetta Duomo, 36100 Vicenza VI, Italy -- Tel.: +39 0444 325007
Site Location: Vicenza, Veneto, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off the SS53, N of the E70, about 60 km W of Venice. The cathedral is on the N side of the Contra Vescovado
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Vicenza
Additional Comments: disused font (in a museum)
Font Notes:
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A fountain basin made by a certain Rodoaldo and used for centuries as baptismal font in the cathedral church of Vicenza [source: http://www.basilicapalladiana.it/vicenza/guida8.htm] [text in source: "vasca di Fontana, fatta costruire da un certo Radoaldo, che si trova nella prima cappella a destra del duomo cittadino e che fu usata per secoli come fonte battesimale"]. The ancient font, now in the Museo Diocesano, is noted and illustrated in ViPiu [https://www.vipiu.it/leggi/antico-fonte-battesimale-cattedrale-di-vicenza-protagonista-allestimento-rigenerati-nella-speranza/] [accessed 30 May 2025]: "antico fonte battesimale, di epoca longobarda, attualmente conservato nel Museo Diocesano". Yje object appears quadrangularplain, raised on four stumps.
The present baptismal font of the cathedral is a stone font dates from 1824, the work of the Sguarise brothers is illustrated in a 3 June 2016 photograph by Didier Descouens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_(Vicenza)_-_Interior_-_Cappella_del_fonte_battesimale..jpg] [accessed 30 June 2025]: "L'intérieur de la Cathédrale de Vicence - Chapelle des fonts baptismaux - L'oeuvre actuelle date de 1824. Travail des frères Sguarise tailleurs de pierre sur un dessin du Bassanais Antonio Bernati. Sur le couvercle il y a une petite statue de saint jean Baptiste de Girolamo Albanese (XVII siècle)."
The present baptismal font of the cathedral is a stone font dates from 1824, the work of the Sguarise brothers is illustrated in a 3 June 2016 photograph by Didier Descouens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_(Vicenza)_-_Interior_-_Cappella_del_fonte_battesimale..jpg] [accessed 30 June 2025]: "L'intérieur de la Cathédrale de Vicence - Chapelle des fonts baptismaux - L'oeuvre actuelle date de 1824. Travail des frères Sguarise tailleurs de pierre sur un dessin du Bassanais Antonio Bernati. Sur le couvercle il y a une petite statue de saint jean Baptiste de Girolamo Albanese (XVII siècle)."
COORDINATES
UTM: 32T 698552 5046776
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.5462, 11.5435
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 32′ 46.32″ N, 11° 32′ 36.6″ E