Torcello No. 2

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B01: animal - fabulous animal or monster? - 4

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Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Barasch (1971)

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BBU01: design element - motifs - palmette

Scene Description: a band of, all around

Image Source: detail of a B&W photograph in Barasch (1971)

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BH01: human figure - head - 4

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LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: forming the lower base

Image Source: B&W photograph in Barasch (1971)

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LBF01: human figure - seated - hands on lap - 4

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view of stoup

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view of stoup

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INFORMATION

Font ID: 12523TOR

Object Type: Stoup

Font Century and Period/Style: 11th century (late?), Romanesque

Cognate Fonts: Acre No. 2, Pomposa, etc. [cf. FontNotes]

Church / Chapel Name: Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Church Patron Saint(s): The Assumption of St. Mary

Church Address: Via isola, Campiello Lazzari, di, 30142 campello VE, Italy

Site Location: Venezia, Veneto, Italy, Europe

Directions to Site: Island located in the N of the lagoon -- boat access from Burano

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Noted in Masolino (1964). Described and illustrated in Barasch (1971): "remarkable [...] holy-water basin in the Cathedral of Torcello [...] probably a work of the late eleventh century", which he notes as having some common elements with the basin of a stoup at Acre [cf. Index entry for Acre No. 2]. Noted in 'Culture of the Orthodox Church' [www.odox.net/Liturgy-Western-Culture2.htm]: "11th-century holy water stoup". The stoup consists of a roughly hemispherical basin decorated with a band of plamette motif around the upper basin side, four human heads at 90-degree angles, and four animals upside down also at 90-degree angles in the position of handles; there is much damage to the upper rim, especially on the sides near the wall; below the underbowl is another band of foiliated motif, and four (?) full-figure hieratic-looking humans seated and with their hands on their laps, forming the support, much as atlante or cariatide figures usually do; this is raised on a columnar stem, a round moulded lower base and a small square plinth.

COORDINATES

UTM: 33T 298373 5041536

Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 45.4982, 12.4193

Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 45° 29′ 53.52″ N, 12° 25′ 9.48″ E

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

REFERENCES

Barasch, Moshe, Crusader figural sculpture in the Holy Land: twelfth century examples from Acre, Nazareth and Belvoir Castle, Ramat Gan: Massada Press, 1971, p. 22, 23 and fig. 5
Masolino, G., Torcello: the Jewel of the Lagoon, Venice: [s.n.], 1964, p. 26