Palermo No. 3

Image and Permission received (e-mail of 30/3/2004)

Results: 4 records

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LID01: view of font cover - finial

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net] for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 30/3/2004)

view of font canopy, baldachin - canopy

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net] for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 30/3/2004)

view of stoup

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net] for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 30/3/2004)

view of stoup and canopy, baldachin

Image Source: Montserrat Estela [www.romanicat.net] for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Image and Permission received (e-mail of 30/3/2004)

INFORMATION

FontID: 09412PAL

Church/Chapel: Cattedrale di Santa Maria dell'Assunta

Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary

Country Name: Italy

Location: Palermo, Sicilia

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 16th - 17th century,

Cognate Fonts: the other stoup in the cathedral, in similar style, but not identical

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

One of two magnificent marble holy-water stoups in the cathedral. Both are designed in the same general style, with the stoup itself -basin and base- rather subdued under the tall ornate backdrop and canopy. There are differences in the particular details of the ornamentation, the scenes represented in the backdrop and the figure of the finial. [We are grateful to Montserrat Estela, of Barcelona, Spain, for the images of this stoup]. [cf. Index entry for Palermo No. 2 for the other stoup, and for Palermo No. 4 for a magnificent baptismal font of the late 18th century in this church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: other (shell-shaped, mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: other (shell-shaped)

Basin Exterior Shape: other (shell-shaped)