Verona No. 3
Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2004
Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 October 2004)
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view of church exterior - west façade
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Didier Descouens, 2015
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 May 2015 by Didier Descouens [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duomo_(Verona)_-_Sant'Elena_(Verona)_-_Facade.JPG] [accessed 27 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of church interior - detail
Scene Description: appears to be the apse of the Early Christian church here
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro, 2016
Image Source: digital photograph taken 16 September 2016 by José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paleochristian_church_remains_-_Sant'Elena_-_Verona_2016.jpg] [accessed 27 February 2020]
Copyright Instructions: CC-BY-SA-4.0
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Juan Antonio Olañeta, 2004
Image Source: digital photograph taken in 2004 by Juan Antonio Olañeta [www.claustro.info]
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author (e-mail of 30 October 2004)
INFORMATION
FontID: 10238VER
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chiesa di Santa Elena / Sant'Elena [aka Chiesa dei Santi Giorgio e Zeno]
Church Patron Saints: St. Helena
Church Location: Corte Sant' Elena, 37121 Verona VR, Italy -- Tel.: +39 045 592813
Country Name: Italy
Location: Verona, Veneto
Directions to Site: The church is located on the N side of the Citta Antica, on the S bank of the Adige river
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Verona
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 11th - 13th century, Romanesque
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Juan Antonio Olañeta, of www.claustro.com, for his photograph of this font
Church Notes: church consecrated mid-9thC; re-built mid-12thC after badly damaged in 1117 earthquake; modified 15thC
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font of the Romanesque period; monolithic and plain bucket-shaped basin without support, made of pink-red marble; an indentation a few inches from the bottom marks the base; the inside of the basin well has been partitioned with a vertical slab at a later date; raised on a circular plinth.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.447472, 10.996806
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 26′ 50.9″ N, 10° 59′ 48.5″ E
UTM: 32T 656149 5034600
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (pink and red)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: bucket-shaped (unmounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round