Fidenza No. 1 / Borgo S. Donnino / Borgo San Donnino

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LBF01: human figure - seated

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph in Studio Gio. Ve. [2004?]

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cleric - Pope - Alexander II

Scene Description: a number of them are shown here: at the extreme left is a mitred one accompanied by anothe figure with headgear --> in the centre is a bishop wearing a mitre and holding a round object decorated with a cross; his left hand is placed on the shoulder of the Pope --> in the centre is a large figure identified as Pope Alexander II in the scrool held up for view --> at the extreme right a priest(?) blesses goods presented by an accolyte

Image Source: digital photograph in the Museo del Duomo di Fidenza [https://www.museionline.info/musei/museo-del-duomo-di-fidenza] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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cleric - Pope Adrian II?

Scene Description: scene occupying the right half of the basin here; the Catalogo generale dei Bebi Culturali [https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0800211066] [accessed 1 October 2022] identifies one figure, Pope Adrian II: "Al centro della vasca vi è la figura di papa Adriano II"

Image Source: digital photograph in Chiesa Oggi Architettura e Comunicazione [https://www.chiesaoggi.com/la-cultura-batte-il-tempo-antelami-a-fidenza/] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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cleric - bishop

Scene Description: at the far lefr

Image Source: digital photograph in the Museo del Duomo di Fidenza [https://www.museionline.info/musei/museo-del-duomo-di-fidenza] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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cleric - bishop - wearing mitre - holding object

Scene Description: holding a round object with cross on it; notice his left hand on the shoulder of the Pope

Image Source: digital photograph in the Museo del Duomo di Fidenza [https://www.museionline.info/musei/museo-del-duomo-di-fidenza] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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cleric - priest - right hand raised in benediction - with book in left hand

Scene Description: scene covering the left half of the basin here: appears to be blessing te objects being presented by the figure on the left

Image Source: digital photograph in Chiesa Oggi Architettura e Comunicazione [https://www.chiesaoggi.com/la-cultura-batte-il-tempo-antelami-a-fidenza/] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - east view

Scene Description: Source caption: " Duomo (Fidenza) - abside"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 2October 2019 by Nadietta90 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duomo_(Fidenza)_-_abside_2_2019-10-02.jpg] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - north tower - west side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Duomo di fidenza, sculture sulla torre sinistra, Erode il Grande chiede dove deve nascere il re dei Giudei. L'iscrizione latina "ERODES identifica il personaggio riprodotto)"

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2010 by sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duomo_di_fidenza,_sculture_sulla_torre_sx,_erode_chiede_dove_deve_nascere_il_re_dei_giudei.JPG] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Duomo di fidenza, sculture a sx del portale c.le, adorazione dei magi e sogno di giuseppe, fregio fitomorfo"

Image Source: digital photograph 24 October 2010 by sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duomo_di_fidenza,_sculture_a_sx_del_portale_c.le,_adorazione_dei_magi_e_sogno_di_giuseppe,_fregio_fitomorfo.JPG] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - west façade - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: "Italie - Emilie-Romagne - Cathédrale de Fidenza"

Image Source: digital photograph 17 September 2010 by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathédrale_de_Fidenza_6.jpg] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - west portal

Scene Description: Source caption: "Ingresso del Duomo di Fidenza"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 24 September 2017 by Nadietta90 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrata_del_Duomo_di_Fidenza.jpg] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail

Scene Description: Source caption: " Italie - Emilie-Romagne - Cathédrale de Fidenza"

Image Source: edited digital image of a 1988 photograph by EmDee [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cathédrale_de_Fidenza_3.jpg] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of church exterior - west view

Scene Description: Source caption: "Facciata del duomo di Fidenza"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 July 2022 by Parma1983 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duomo_(Fidenza)_-_facciata_1_2022-07-18.jpg] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Scene Description: Source caption: "Navata centrale del duomo di Fidenza"

Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 18 July 2022 by Parma1983 [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duomo_(Fidenza)_-_navata_centrale_1_2022-07-18.jpg] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: Source caption: "vIl disegno riproduce il fonte battesimale romanico del Duomo di Fidenza nella collocazione del 1857, addossato al pilastro di fronte alla porta laterale sud. Sotto ha le seguenti iscrizioni manoscritte: ANTICO BATTISTERO / del Duomo della città di S. Donnino / Mombecchini …. Disegnava questo giorno 18 settembre 1859. GG"

Image Source: digital image of a 16 September 1859 drawing, Deposito del Seminario Vescovile di Fidenza, 2012 in the Museo del Duomo di Fidenza [https://www.museoduomofidenza.it/opera/fonte-battesimale-romanico/] [accessed 1 October 2022]

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view of stoup

Image Source: digital photograph in Studio Gio. Ve. [2004?]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image in the Museo del Duomo di Fidenza [www.museoduomofidenza.it] [no. C36]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: detail of a digital image in the Museo del Duomo di Fidenza [www.museoduomofidenza.it] [no. C36]

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view of stoup

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

Image Source: digital image in the Museo del Duomo di Fidenza [www.museoduomofidenza.it] [no. C36]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 09601FID

Museum and Inventory Number: Museo del Duomo di Fidenza

Church/Chapel: Duomo / Cattedrale di San Donnino

Church Patron Saints: St. Donnino

Church Location: Piazza Duomo, 43036 Fidenza PR, Italy

Country Name: Italy

Location: Parma, Emilia-Romagna

Directions to Site: The museum and cathedral are located in the centre of town. Fidenza is located off the A1, about 25 km WNW of Parma

Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Fidenza

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, by the S entrance

Century and Period: 12th - 13th century [composite stoup made up in 1857], Medieval [composite]

Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop of Benedetto Antelami?

Church Notes: building began 12thC; survived sack of 1268;

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Holy-water stoup consisting of a rather shallow, roughly hemispherical basin decorated with clerical figures all around (some mitred, with scrolls, etc.), and with single seated human figure as pedestal base. This object appears illustrated in a 19th-century, in the on-line inventory of the Museo del Duomo di Fidenza [www.museoduomofidenza.it] [no. C36]. According to this latter source, the present stoup [acquasantiera] is a composite object made up in 1857 with the basin of the cathedral's old baptismal font and an old telemon or atlante figure [both with individual inventory numbers in the museum inventory]. Described and illustrated in Francovich (1952), who identifies Pope Alexander II and notes the inscription. Noted in Barasch (1971): "remarkable holy-water basin, an Italian work of the late eleventh century [...] in the Cathedral of Borgo San Donnino" [NB: Barasch (ibid.) refers to Porter, Arthur Kingsley Porter's 'Lombard architecture' (New Haven, 1917) (ii, 173ff) -- [TO BE FOLLOWED UP]]. Barasch (ibid.) notes on the basin sides "groups of half-length figures, apparently representing four scenes of a ritual character; the benediction of a novice nun, and the consecration of the holy-water. In the last mentioned scene there appears, as some scholars believe, the figure of Pope Alexander II who prescribed the use of holy-water". [NB: the description of this object depends on the source used. The object, referred to some times as 'font', at other rimes as 'acquasantiera', is presented at times with a carved pedestal base, as in the Catalogo generale dei Bebi Culturali [https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/0800211066] [accessed 1 October 2022], with attribution to the Maestro Dei Profeti (workshop), Benedetto Antelami, whereas the museum displays it on a plain modern base].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.866476, 10° 3′ 28.2″ E

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 51′ 59.32″ N, 10° 3′ 28.2″ E

UTM: 32T 385567 4968662

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Number of Pieces: two

Font Shape: hemispheric (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Language: Latin

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]

Inscription Location: on a scroll, the basin side

Inscription Text: "INSTI/TVCI/O. ALE/XAN/DRI/PP [both overscored]II"

Inscription Source: Francovich (1952, vol. 1: 373)

REFERENCES

Barasch, Moshe, Crusader figural sculpture in the Holy Land: twelfth century examples from Acre, Nazareth and Belvoir Castle, Ramat Gan: Massada Press, 1971

Francovich, Geza de, Benedetto Antelami, architetto e scultore, e l'arte del suo tempo, Milano: Electa, 1952