Jesi No. 2 / Iesi
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N.A: animal - mammal - lion - couchant - with prey - snake
Scene Description: Source caption: "le Acquasantiere, leoni stilofori di Giorgio da Como, XIII secolo" -- the snake held between the claws bites the chest of the lion
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Parsifall, 2011
Image Source: digital photograph taken 7 July 2011 by Parsifall [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesi,_Duomo_di_S.Settimio,_XIII-XVIII_secolo_(3).jpg] [accessed 19 October 2014]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 09134JES
Church/Chapel: Cattedrale di San Settimio Vescovo e Martire [aka Duomo di Jesi]
Church Patron Saints: Our Saviour & St. Septimus
Church Location: Piazza Federico II, 7, 60035 Jesi (AN) Italy -- Tel.: +39 0731 226749
Country Name: Italy
Location: Ancona, Marche
Directions to Site: Located 25 km SW of Ancona capital
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese di Jesi
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, to the right of the entrance
Date: ca. 1230?
Century and Period: 13th century (early?) [base only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]Medieval [composite]
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Giorgio da Como
Cognate Fonts: A similar one -not identical- on the opposite side
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Catalogued and illustrated in La chiesa di Jesi (2000: 276) as item 343 [a]: one of two couchant stylophore lions made of ochre/brownish marble by Giorgio da Como ca. 1230, formerly located outside the entrance. Both have been reused as the bases of holy-water stoups and placed at either side of the entrance, inside the church, with Baroque-looking stoups on their backs. The lion located at the right of the entrance holds the body of a snake between its claws while the head of the snake bites its chest. [cf. Index entries for Jesi No. 3 for the lion on the other side of the entrance and Jesi No. 1 for the 15th-century baptismal font]
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
43.52488,
13.2462
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
43° 31′ 29.57″ N,
13° 14′ 46.32″ E
UTM: 33T 4820599 358272
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone, marble
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Square Base Dimensions: 155 x 104 x 48 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * La chiesa di Fesi (2000: 276) as length x height (head included) x width
REFERENCES
La chiesa di Jesi, Jesi: Diocesi di Jesi, 2000