Valletta No. 1 / Belt Valletta / La Valette
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 13714VAL
Object Type: Stoup
Font Date: 1535
Font Century and Period/Style: 16th century, Early Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Nicola Caccialepre [aka Caccialepri]
Museum: MUŻA, National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
Church / Chapel Name: [original church unknown]
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Church Address: Auberge D'Italie, Merchants St, Valletta VLT 1100, Malta -- Tel.: +356 23954500
Site Location: Malta, Malta, Europe
Directions to Site: Located off hwy 1, in Piazza Jean de Vallette, on the peninsula,
Additional Comments: disused stoup: in a museum collection
Font Notes:
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Noted and illustrated in Buhagiar (2005): "a white marble holy water stoup that was presumably the gift of one of the Knight Hospitallers. The basin, which has the simple nobility and pusity of form of the Early Renaissance, and is ornamented with the Cross of the Religion, and fleurs de Lis in low relief [...] is the work of the still largely unknown sculpture [sic] Nicola Caccialepri who followed the Knights to Malta from Rhodes. It is signed and dated 1535 in beautiful, boldly engraved Latin letters. The basin is roughly hemispherical, with the said motifs runing around the sides between two mouldings; the inscription is on the upper surface of the rim; the inner well is also round.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33S 455905 3972567
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 35.896389, 14.511389
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 35° 53′ 47″ N, 14° 30′ 41″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Location: on the upper surface of the rim
Inscription Text: [name of the artist, Ncilola Caccialepri/e and date 1535]
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
- Buhagiar, Mario, The Late Medieval art and architecture of the Maltese islands, Valletta: Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, 2005, p. 157-158 and fig. 8.5