Como No. 4 / Còmm / Novum Comum

Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2019

Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 June 2019)

Results: 8 records

design element - motifs - foliage

Scene Description: as suggested in the museum information, the leafy pattern here resembles the foliage on the capitals of the south portal in Zurich's Grossmünster

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 June 2019)

design element - motifs - moulding - flat moulding

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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design element - motifs - rope moulding

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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information

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Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

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information

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 June 2019)

view of basin - interior

Scene Description: contrary to the statement made in museum's information panel, this basin shws clear signs of having been used as a font, not a stoup: the internal division of the inner basin and the three plugs that would have anchored an old font cover

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 June 2019)

view of basin in context

Scene Description: as displayed in June 2019 in the Palazzo Volpi, Sezione Medievale

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2019

Image Source: digital photograph taken 25 June 2019 by Angeles Leal Arroyo

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 25 June 2019)

view of church exterior - south portal - west side - detail

Scene Description: The musem information suggests that the decorative motifs hark back at 11th-century stucco models, and later used on the south portal of Grossmünster, in Zurich, the latter shown in this photograph of the capitals of the west side of the south portal.

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © [in the public domain]

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 September 2006 by Glenn Johnson [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grossmunster_Portal_Medieval_Column_Grotesque_Capital.jpg] [accessed 30 June 2019]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 22213COM
Museum and Inventory Number: Via Armando Diaz, 84, 22100 Como CO, Italy
Church/Chapel: [original church unknown]
Church Location: [museum address: Via Armando Diaz, 84, 22100 Como CO, Italy]
Country Name: Italy
Location: Como, Lombardia
Directions to Site: Located at the SW arm of Lake Como, 40 km N of Milan, border with Switzerland. The museum is located three blocks NW of Porta Torre, between Via Innocenzo XI (W) and Via Dante Alighieri [aka SP583] (E)
Font Location in Church: [in a museum]
Century and Period: 12th century (late?), Late Romanesque
Cognate Fonts: [cf. FontNotes]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Angeles Leal Arroyo for her photographs of this object
Marble ["Marmo di Susso"] held originally in Palazzo Giovio, II Sala Cristiana (1937-1989); Palazzo Volpi, Sezione Medievale (1989- ). The museum information describes this object, the origin of which ia given as corte in via Milano a Como", as a "conca monolitica, impiegata come acquasantiera, meno probabilmente come fonte battesimale", with date in the late 12th century. Although it may have been used as a holy-water stoup at some point, the object was actually adjusted to be used as a baptismal font, contrary to the mueum description, as evidenced by the internal division of the basin and the three plugs in the upper rim; whatever the original use of the object had been, the internal division would have been made probably in the 16th century or later, when the French fashion of creating two inner basins in baptismal fonts became popular; the three plugs in the rim indicate that there was a cover installed on the basin, again, evidence of use as a font, not a stoup. The musem information suggests that the decorative motifs hark back at 11th-century stucco models, and later used on the south portal of Grossmünster, in Zurich.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 45.807374, 9.083302
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 45° 48′ 26.54″ N, 9° 4′ 59.89″ E
UTM: 32T 506473 5072649

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone, marble (Marmo di Musso)
Number of Pieces: one
Font Shape: hemispheric
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: no lining

LID INFORMATION

Notes: [cf. FontNotes]