Nonantola No. 1 / Nonatula / Nunântla
Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2021
Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 October 2021)
Results: 35 records
view of basin - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 October 2021)
view of basin - interior - detail
![showing the top of a former Roman fountain re-cycled into the composite baptismal font here [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210425030_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the top of a former Roman fountain re-cycled into the composite baptismal font here [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Carlo Finocchietti, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 31 May 2019 by Carlo Finocchietti, in Camminare sulla storia: passeggiate sui sentieri della memoria [https://blogcamminarenellastoria.wordpress.com/chi-siamo/] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of basin in context - detail
![showing the former Roman fountain re-cycled into the composite baptismal font here [cf. FontNotes]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1211002026_compressed.png)
Scene Description: showing the former Roman fountain re-cycled into the composite baptismal font here [cf. FontNotes]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 October 2021)
view of church exterior - east view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, absidi"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_absidi.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Servizio fotografico : Nonantola, 1971 / Paolo Monti. - Strisce: 2, Fotogrammi complessivi: 7 : Negativo b/n, gelatina bromuro d'argento/ pellicola ; 35 mm. - ((Sul portanegativi: NIKON PanF. - Fonte: Agenda di Paolo Monti: Monti - Agenda 1971 (1971), presso Archivio Paolo Monti"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC, Civico Archivio Fotografico of Milan, 2016
Image Source: digital image [SER-s5020-0002705] of a 1971 B&W negative by Paolo Monti, in the Fondo Paolo Monti, BEIC, Civico Archivio Fotografico of Milan [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paolo_Monti_-_Servizio_fotografico_(Nonantola,_1971)_-_BEIC_6357728.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal
Scene Description: Source caption: "Ingresso dell' Abbazia"
Copyright Statement: image copyright © pietro scerrato, 2012
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 14 May 2012 by pietro scerrato [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ingresso_dell'_Abbazia_-_panoramio.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, leone sx"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_leone_sx.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
![Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella [02]"](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210425015_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella [02]"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_sx,_formella_02.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella 03 re astolfo fa la donazione ad anselmo"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_sx,_formella_03_re_astolfo_fa_la_donazione_ad_anselmo.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella 04 anselmo, fatto monaco, fonda nonantola"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_sx,_formella_04_anselmo,_fatto_monaco,_fonda_nonantola.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella 05 Stefano II benedice anselmo"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_sx,_formella_05_Stefano_II_benedice_anselmo.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella 06, traslazione e sepoltuta del corpo di san silvestro nell'abbazia"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_sx,_formella_06,_traslazione_e_sepoltuta_del_corpo_di_san_silvestro_nell'abbazia.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella 07 morte di sant'Adriano III nell'abbazia"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_sx,_formella_07_morte_di_sant'Adriano_III_nell'abbazia.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella 08 trasporto di Adriano III"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_sx,_formella_08_trasporto_di_Adriano_III.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella 09 sepoltura di Adriano III"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_sx,_formella_09_sepoltura_di_Adriano_III.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - north side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite sx, formella 10 sansone e il leone (et de forte dulcedo, de comedente cibus)"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_sx,_formella_10_sansone_e_il_leone_(et_de_forte_dulcedo,_de_comedente_cibus).JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 02 annunciazione"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_dx,_formella_02_annunciazione.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 03 visitazione"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_dx,_formella_03_visitazione.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
![Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 04 cristo lavato" [NB: the upper image belongs to the Nativity, shared with the frame above]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210425009_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 04 cristo lavato" [NB: the upper image belongs to the Nativity, shared with the frame above]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_dx,_formella_04_cristo_lavato.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
![Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 05 presepio" [NB: this frame, together with the upper half of the frame below, is part of the Nativity scene]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210425010_compressed.png)
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 05 presepio" [NB: this frame, together with the upper half of the frame below, is part of the Nativity scene]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_dx,_formella_05_presepio.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 06 annuncio ai pastori"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_dx,_formella_06_annuncio_ai_pastori.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 07, adorazione dei magi"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_dx,_formella_07,_adorazione_dei_magi.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 08 presentazione al tempio, maria giuseppe e simeone"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_dx,_formella_08_presentazione_al_tempio,_maria_giuseppe_e_simeone.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - south side - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo, stipite dx, formella 09 angelo parla a giuseppe"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_stipite_dx,_formella_09_angelo_parla_a_giuseppe.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior - west portal - tympanum
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, portale di seguaci wiligelmo"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_portale_di_seguaci_wiligelmo,_01.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church exterior in context - west façade
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 19 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola_00.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church interior - crypt
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di Nonantola- Cripta"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © William.lugli, 2019
Image Source: digital photograph 8 April 2019 by William.lugli [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_Nonantola-_Cripta.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church interior - crypt - detail
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, interno, cripta, capitello"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph 19 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_interno,_cripta,_capitello_01.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church interior - crypt - reliquary - detail
Scene Description: Source caption; "Relics of Saint Sylvester in the Abbey of Saint Sylvester in Nonantola. The Reliquary was made in 1990."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Valerio Capello (ElfQrin), 2020
Image Source: edited detail of a 6 August 2020 digital photograph by Valerio Capello (ElfQrin) [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reliquie_di_san_silvestro_papa_nonantola_2020-08-06.jpg] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of church interior - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 October 2021)
view of church interior - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2010
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_interno,_05.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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view of font
![described and illustrated in La Basilica Abbaziale [https://abbazianonantola.it/visita-abbazia] [accessed 25 April 2021] as an octagonal composite object cobbled together in the 20th century; it indludes fragments of a Romanesque frieze, an inscribed palaeo-Christian grave stone and a Roman water fountain in its centre [="Il fonte battesimale, alla sinistra del portale, di forma ottagonale, è frutto di un rifacimento di inizio Novecento. Murati nella struttura vi sono frammenti di un fregio romanico e una lapide che ricorda una sepoltura paleocristiana. All’interno il fonte battesimale è stato ricavato reimpiegando una fontana romana."]](/static-50478a99ec6f36a15d6234548c59f63da52304e5/compressed/1210425029_compressed.png)
Scene Description: described and illustrated in La Basilica Abbaziale [https://abbazianonantola.it/visita-abbazia] [accessed 25 April 2021] as an octagonal composite object cobbled together in the 20th century; it indludes fragments of a Romanesque frieze, an inscribed palaeo-Christian grave stone and a Roman water fountain in its centre [="Il fonte battesimale, alla sinistra del portale, di forma ottagonale, è frutto di un rifacimento di inizio Novecento. Murati nella struttura vi sono frammenti di un fregio romanico e una lapide che ricorda una sepoltura paleocristiana. All’interno il fonte battesimale è stato ricavato reimpiegando una fontana romana."]
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Museo Benedettino e Diocesano d'Arte Sacra - Arcidiocesi di Modena-Nonantola, 2016
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph in La Basilica Abbaziale [https://abbazianonantola.it/images/abbazia/IMG_9511.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
Copyright Instructions: No known copyright restriction / Fair Dealing
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 October 2021)
view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Angeles Leal Arroyo, 2021
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2021 by Angeles Leal Arroyo
Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received from the author via Mikel Unanue (e-mail of 1 October 2021)
view of stoup in context
Scene Description: Source caption: "Abbazia di nonantola, interno, acquasantiera"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2009
Image Source: edited detail of a digital photograph 20 September 2009 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abbazia_di_nonantola,_interno,_acquasantiera.JPG] [accessed 25 April 2021]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23283NON
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Basilica Abbaziale di San Silvestro
Church Patron Saints: St. Sylvester [cf. ChurchNotes for earlier dedications]
Church Location: Piazza Abbazia, 1, 41015 Nonantola MO, Italy
Country Name: Italy
Location: Modena, Emilia-Romagna
Directions to Site: Located off the Strada Statale 255, 10 km ENE of Modena
Ecclesiastic Region: Arcidiocesi di Modena-Nonatola [formerly Diocesi d Nonantola]
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the N aisle, NW corner
Century and Period: [composite font], Romanesque / Early Christian / Roman [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are gratful to Joost Limburg for bringing this font to out attention, and to Angeles Leal Arroyo for her photographs
Church Notes: church consecrated 752 founding a Benedictine monastery here by Anselmo, duke of Friuli; first dedicated first to St Mary and St Bennedict, later to the Santi Apostoli and, when the relics of San Silvestro were brought to the abbey in 756 the church was re-dedicated to his name; the abbey wa favoured by the Franks and Charlemagne in particular; it became large and wealthy, comparable to Canterbury and Cluny; sacked by the Hungarians in 899; damaged by the 1117 earthquake
Font Notes:
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The baptismal font in this church is described and illustrated in La Basilica Abbaziale [https://abbazianonantola.it/visita-abbazia] [accessed 25 April 2021] as an octagonal composite object cobbled together in the 20th century that includes fragments of a Romanesque frieze, an inscribed palaeo-Christian grave stone and a Roman water fountain in its centre [="Il fonte battesimale, alla sinistra del portale, di forma ottagonale, è frutto di un rifacimento di inizio Novecento. Murati nella struttura vi sono frammenti di un fregio romanico e una lapide che ricorda una sepoltura paleocristiana. All’interno il fonte battesimale è stato ricavato reimpiegando una fontana romana."] [NB: we have no information on the original font(s) of this abbey church].
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 44.67794, 11.04365
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 44° 40′ 40.58″ N, 11° 2′ 37.14″ E
UTM: 32T 661971 4949206