Elva No. 1
Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009
Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi
Results: 3 records
B01: inscription
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Roberto Mastacchi
Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi
B02: design element - motifs - rope moulding
Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Roberto Mastacchi
Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi
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Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph by Roberto Mastacchi
Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi
INFORMATION
FontID: 14957ELV
Church/Chapel: Chiesa parrochiale di Santa Maria Assunta
Church Patron Saints: The Assumption of St. Mary
Country Name: Italy
Location: Cuneo, Piemonte
Directions to Site: Located in Valle Maira
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Credo font
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Don Roberto Mastacchi for the photograph of this font
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
"scolpito fonte battesimale risalente al 1400 (opera dei fratelli Zabreri di Pagliero)." [source: http://www.vallidicuneo.net/elva.htm [accessed 8 July 2009]]. See the font and holy-water stoup illustrated in http://www.comunelva.it/ch_affreschi_arredi.htm [accessed 8 July 2009] -- and -- http://www.webalice.it/restaenzo/fonte%20battesimale1.jpg [accessed 8 July 2009]. The baptismal font, however, is not by the Zabreri workshop. This font is certainly not one of the Credo fonts characteristic of that workshop; it is instead a much cruder work consisting of two octagonal volumes, basin and base arranged mirror-like with four attached colonnettes in the middle; the upper volume, the basin, has the text of the Credo in panels framed by rope moulding; the underbowl appears to have scenes [not identified]; the lower volume, the base, also has scenes [unidentified] on the sides.
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
INSCRIPTION
Inscription Language: Latin
Inscription Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
Inscription Location: on the sides of the basin
Inscription Text: [transcription not available]