Caprona

Results: 10 records

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view of basin

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of basin - interior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of basin - upper view

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of basin - upper view - detail

Scene Description: notice how worn some of the sides are; was this the result of the font being used as a water trough? for sharpening farm tools?

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of church exterior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of church exterior

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of church exterior - façade

view of church interior

Scene Description: the font on the right-hand side

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of font

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

view of font in context

Image Source: BSI - Photographed June 25, 2007

INFORMATION

FontID: 13042CAP

Object Type: Baptismal Font1

Church/Chapel: Pieve di Santa Giulia

Church Patron Saints: St. Julia [aka Giulia of Corsica, Julia of Carthage]

Country Name: Italy

Location: Pisa, Toscana

Font Location in Church: Inside the church

Century and Period: 12th century, Romanesque

Font Notes: Click to view

Large octagonal baptismal font, slightly wider at the top, the sides totally plain; the basin is raised on an octagonal plinth, and located in a gap in the side of the nave; the basin has been damaged and repaired, and several of the sides of the upper rim, which may be the result of the font having been used as a trough or other farm uses when it was damaged and abandoned between 1433 and 1597 [cf. http://www.comune.vicopisano.pi.it/turismo/territorio/frazioni/caprona/santa%20giulia.htm [accessed 8 July 2007]. [We are grateful to Annamaria Ducci for her help in documenting this font]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble?

Font Shape: octagonal (unmounted)

Basin Interior Shape: octagonal

Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal