Lucca No. 4

Results: 9 records

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B01: angel - cherub - 4

Scene Description: one on each side of the basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

B02: design element - motifs - garland

Scene Description: on each side of the basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

information

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of basin - interior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of font - front side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of font - side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of font - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of font in context

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of font in context

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 13041LUC

Church/Chapel: Chiesa di Santi Giovanni e Reparata

Church Patron Saints: St. John & St. Mary

Country Name: Italy

Location: Lucca, Toscana

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 17th - 18th century,

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Bath-tub shaped marble baptismal font probably of the 17th or 18th century; the inside of the well is divide into two compartments as French fonts of the 16th century often are; the outside of the basin is decorated with winged cherub heads and garlands at 90-degree angles. A notice by the font informs that it is where Beata Maria Domenica Brun Barbantini was baptised on 17 January 1789. [cf. Index entry for Lucca No. 3 for an earlier font in the same church]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble

Font Shape: oval

Basin Interior Shape: oval

Basin Exterior Shape: oval