Castelmagno / Castelmanh

Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

Results: 16 records

B01: inscription

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

B01: inscription

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph dated 24 June 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

BU01: design element - motifs - foliage

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph dated 24 June 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

BU01: design element - motifs - scallop - 8

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph dated 24 June 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

BU01: symbol - star

BU02: coat of arms - unidentified

BU02: design element - motifs - floral - fleur-de-lis

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph dated 24 June 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

BU03: coat of arms - unidentified

Scene Description: at least two

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph dated 24 June 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

BU03: design element - motifs - scallop

Scene Description: a row of them at the bottom of the underbowl

BU05: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image Source: detail of a digital photograph dated 24 June 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

CR01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph dated 24 June 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

LB01: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph dated 24 June 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

UB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: several

UB02: design element - motifs - rope moulding

Scene Description: several

view of font

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roberto Mastacchi, 2009

Image Source: digital photograph dated 24 June 2009

Copyright Instructions: Image received from Don Roberto Mastacchi

INFORMATION

FontID: 15026CAS
Church/Chapel: Chiesa parrocchiale de S. Ambrogio
Church Patron Saints: St. Ambrose
Country Name: Italy
Location: Cuneo, Piemonte
Directions to Site: Located in the Val Grana / Valgrana, 25 km W of Cuneo, 80 km SW of Torino
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 15th century, Gothic
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Workshop of the Zabreri di Pagliero / Credo font / heraldic font
Cognate Fonts: others by the same workshop
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Don Roberto Mastacchio for the photograph of this font
Noted and illustrated in Mastacchi & Knapinski (2008) as a baptismal font of the Zabreri brothers of Pagliaro, bearing an inscription on the upper basin sides with the initial words of the Credo; the basin is octagonal on the outside, the narrow side bearing the inscription; a variety of motifs and symbols [star, shield, vegetal, etc.] and a rope moulding decorate the underbowl; on a round stem with round and rope mouldings, and a plain octagonal lower base.

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: "[...] / patrem / [...]" [beginning of Credo text -- transcription not available]

REFERENCES

Mastacchi, Roberto, "Il simbolo defli Apostoli: il simbolo della fede nella catechesi e nell'arte", 13/2/2008, Il centro culturale Gli scritti, 2008