Pisa No. 5

Image copyright © Lorenzo Carletti and Cristiano Giometti, 2010
PERMISSION NOT AVAILABLE -- IMAGE NOT FOR PUBLIC USE
Results: 7 records
B01: angel - holding chalice
B02: human figure - standing
B03: human figure - standing - screaming
BBL01: animal - fabulous animal or monster - dragon - with knotted tail
BBU01: animal - mammal - ram - head
view of stoup
INFORMATION
FontID: 17400PIS
Museum and Inventory Number: Museo Nazionale di San Matteo (Lungarno o
Piazza San Matteo 1, Pisa)
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Country Name: Italy
Location: Pisa, Toscana
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th century (mid?), Romanesque
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted and illustrated in Carletti & Giometti (2010): holy-water stoup of rounded body with four protrusions at the upper rim; one of the sides has a standing figure of an angel holding a chalice; the other sides are filled with less serene motifs: a figure with a face disfigured by a huge open mouth; another figure with massive hair; large ram head of the Etruscan type (like the ones at the Cascina stoup [cf. Index entry]); a small dragon with a twisted tail.
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
43.714533,
10.407614
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
43° 42′ 52.32″ N,
10° 24′ 27.41″ E
UTM: 32T 4841130 613394
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material:
stone
Font Shape: round (with protrusions)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round