Valletta No. 1 / Belt Valletta / La Valette

Results: 5 records

B01: symbol - shield - cross

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

CR01: design element - motifs - moulding

R01: design element - motifs - moulding

R02: inscription

Scene Description: [cf. InscriptionArea]

INFORMATION

FontID: 13714VAL
Museum and Inventory Number: National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Country Name: Malta
Location: Malta
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Date: 1535
Century and Period: 16th century, Early Renaissance
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Nicola Caccialepre [aka Caccialepri]
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.

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

INSCRIPTION

Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the upper surface of the rim
Inscription Text: [name of the artist, Ncilola Caccialepri/e and date 1535]

REFERENCES

Buhagiar, Mario, The Late Medieval art and architecture of the Maltese islands, Valletta: Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti, 2005