Modena No. 5

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Results: 11 records

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BU01: angel - cherub

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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BU02: design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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LID01: angel - cherub

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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R01: design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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UB01: design element - motifs - foliage

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

Copyright Instructions: Standing permission

information

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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view of church exterior - west façade

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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view of church interior - ceiling

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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view of church interior - nave - looking east

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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view of font and cover

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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view of font and cover in context

Image Source: digital photograph taken 12 June 2012 by Giovanni Scorcione for BSI

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INFORMATION

FontID: 18094MOD

Church/Chapel: Chiesa Parrocchiale di Sant'Agostino [aka Pantheon Atestinum]

Church Patron Saints: St. Augustine of Hippo

Church Location: Piazza Sant'Agostino, 6 - Modena - MO - 41121

Country Name: Italy

Location: Modena, Emilia-Romagna

Directions to Site: Located on Piazza Sant'Agostino, WNW of the cathedral [zona centro storico]

Font Location in Church: Inside the church, on the side of the nave

Century and Period: 17th - 18th century, Baroque

Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Giovanni Scorcioni for his photographs of this church and font, all of which were taken days after the earthquake that hit Modena on 3 June 2012

Church Notes: originally a 14thC Augustinian church, much re-built in the mid-17thC

Font Notes: Click to view font notes

Baptismal font consisting of a round shallow basin decorated with a pronounced torus-scotia at the upper rim, most of its surface covered in foliated motifs, cherub heads at 90-degree angles; raised on a bulbous baluster pedestal base with foliage motifs, and a square lower base equally ornamented. The dome cover appears to be fixed to the upper rim of the basin, or is part of the same block, with a part that opens to give access to the baptismal water inside; the outer surface of the cover is decorated with cherub heads in fields of garlands and foliage; the moulded finial has the same excess of foliated motifs. [NB: we have no information on the font from the 14th-century church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.648206, 10.92196

Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 38′ 53.54″ N, 10° 55′ 19.06″ E

UTM: 32T 652404 4945668

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

Font Shape: round (mounted)

Basin Interior Shape: round

Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: 17th - 18th century?

Apparatus: no

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]