Venice No. 5 / Venezia
Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 March 2012)
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view of church exterior - façade
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Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 February 2008 by Godromil [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Venezia_-_Chiesa_di_S.Francesco_di_Paola.JPG] [accessed 6 April 2012]
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view of church interior - chancel
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2012 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 March 2012)
view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph taken 17 February 2012 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 March 2012)
view of font cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2012
Image Source: detail of a digital photograph taken 17 February 2012 by Colin Smith
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 4 March 2012)
INFORMATION
FontID: 17988VEN
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Chiesa parrocchiale di San Francesco di Paola
Church Location: lungo Via Giuseppe Garibaldi: Castello, 1285 - 30122 VENEZIA
Country Name: Italy
Location: Venezia, Veneto
Directions to Site: Located in the sestiere di Castello
Ecclesiastic Region: Patriarcato di Venezia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 17th - 18th century
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: Present church dates from 1588, but took over a previous church of the mid-14thC dedicated to St. Batholomew
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font in reddish marble consisting of a wide and shallow round basin with a pronounced moulded upper rim, raised on a round bulbous pedestal base. The copper (?) cover is dome-shaped and has a statue of John the Baptist as finial; the from of the cover appears to be hinged for opening. The present church dates originally from the end of the 16th century, but the font probably belongs to the restoration of the 18th century. [NB: we have no information on the earlier font of this church]
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (red)
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
LID INFORMATION
Material: metal, copper?
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]