Viterbo
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Results: 18 records
view of font
Scene Description: basin and base
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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view of font
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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animal - fish - dolphin - 2
Scene Description: at the bottom, a pair on each side of the later addition to the centre of the basin
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2017 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_da_ancona,_vasca_battesimale,_1470_(con_piede_e_tempietto_anteriori)_02_battista.jpg] [accessed 21 October 2023]
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New Testament - Public life of Christ - baptism of Christ - John the Baptist holding water container - dove above
Scene Description: naked child-like Christ -- not part of the original basin but a later addition
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sailko, 2017
Image Source: digital photograph 10 June 2017 by Sailko [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Francesco_da_ancona,_vasca_battesimale,_1470_(con_piede_e_tempietto_anteriori)_02_battista.jpg] [accessed 21 October 2023]
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cleric
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cleric
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Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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design element - motifs - cornucopia
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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design element - motifs - varied
Scene Description: [cf. FontNotes]
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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design element - architectural - arch-head - trefoiled
Scene Description: all around
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sarah MacLean, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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design element - patterns - fretwork
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design element - motifs - floral
Scene Description: all around below the upper rim
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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view of church exterior in context - southwest view
Scene Description: Source caption: "Die Kathedrale San Lorenzo in Viterbo"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Kasa Fue, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 13 July 2023 by Kasa Fue [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kathedrale_San_Lorenzo_(Viterbo)_Juli_2023.jpg] [accessed 21 October 2023]
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view of font in context
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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view of church interior - nave - capital
Scene Description: Source caption: "Capitello a San Lorenzo"
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Justinawind, 2012
Image Source: digital photograph 16 Februay 2012 by Justinawind ]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Capitello_a_San_Lorenzo.JPG] [accessed 21 October 2023]
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view of church interior - looking east
Scene Description: Source caption: "La nef romane de la cathédrale San Lorenzo. La façade de la cathédrale a été totalement reconstruite au XVIe siècle. Après la dernière guerre mondiale (l'église avait été dévastée par une bombe), l’abside a été restaurée dans le style roman d'origine. "
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, 2018
Image Source: digital photograph 16 April 2018 by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_nef_de_la_cathédrale_San_Lorenzo_(Viterbe,_Italie)_(40888622735).jpg] [accessed 21 October 2023]
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design element - architectural - scroll - 3
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Sarah MacLean, 2023
Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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design element - motifs - moulding - patterned
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Image Source: digital photograph 23 September 2023 by Sarah MacLean
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animal - claw - 3
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INFORMATION
Font ID: 25000VIT
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Date: 1470
Font Century and Period/Style: 15th century (late) [basin only] [composite], Late Gothic [basin only] [composite
Workshop/Group/Artisan: Francesco d'Ancona [altered]
Church / Chapel Name: Duomo di Viterbo / Cattedrale di San Lorenzo
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Lawrence [aka Laurence]
Church Notes: Romanesque church; re-built 16thC;
Church Address: Piazza S. Lorenzo, 01100 Viterbo VT, Italy
Site Location: Viterbo, Lazio, Italy, Europe
Directions to Site: Located in the old city centre, W of the SR2 [aka Viale Raniero Capocci], about 85 km NNW of Rome
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocesi di Viterbo
Additional Comments: altered font (the basin originally from 1470; the rest a later addition of earlier pieces) -- disappeared font (the one from the Romanesque church here)
Font Notes:
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Baptismal font listed and illustrated in the Catalogo benerale dei Bieni culturali [codice: 1200070521] [https://catalogo.beniculturali.it/detail/HistoricOrArtisticProperty/1200070521] [accessed 22 October 2023]: "Fonte battesimale. Marmo. Francesco D'ancona. Tre zampe di leone sormontate da tre mensole con scanalature e ornati floreali, sorreggono un fusto decorato sul quale poggia l'ampia tazza battesimale la cui superficie è interamente decorata con bassi e alti rilievi che corrono intorno al bordo, lì dove sono rappresentate cornucopie, fiori e frutta. Sulla lastra che chiude il fonte è poggiato un tabernacolo dalla base triangolare, decorato sulle tre fronti con la figurazione del battesimo di Cristo e due santi. Le figure sono inquadrate da lesene con motivi vegetali coronate da capitelli reggenti una multipla trabeazione, sulla quale si pone una cupoletta sormontata dai monti araldici e dalla croce [...] l fonte fu commissionato a Francesco d'Ancona che lo eseguì con la collaborazione di Lazzaro e Francesco da Carrara e Jeronimo da Firenze. Costò 200 ducati d'oro che vennero pagati da Nicola Bussi, nobile cittadino di Viterbo. La conca, in marmo di Carrara, risulta piuttosto pregevole per le raffinate sculture ed intagli, lavoro dell'artista suddetto, altrimenti sconosciuto. Egli utilizzò, tuttavia, la base che, assieme al tempietto sovrastante la conca, appartengono ad epoca precedente, raffinato lavoro dei primi del XIV secolo. Si consulti: C. Pinzi, I principali monumenti di Viterbo, Viterbo 1911, p. 101; A. Scriattoli, Viterbo nei suoi monumenti, Roma 1915-20, pp. 139, 141, fig. 162; M. Signorelli, Guida di Viterbo, Viterbo 1965, p. 90; F. Negri Arnoldi, Tabernacoli, fonti battesimali e altari in "Il Quattrocento a Viterbo", 1983, p. 348"
The baptismal font as it appears now is a composite object: the roughly hemispherical basin is the work of Francesco da Ancona, dated 1470, decorated with cornucopia, floral and fruit motifs; the base and the 'tempietto' with a Baptism of Christ scene and the statues of Ilario and Valentino, are later modifications using earlier(?) pieces.
The baptismal font as it appears now is a composite object: the roughly hemispherical basin is the work of Francesco da Ancona, dated 1470, decorated with cornucopia, floral and fruit motifs; the base and the 'tempietto' with a Baptism of Christ scene and the statues of Ilario and Valentino, are later modifications using earlier(?) pieces.
COORDINATES
UTM: 33T 261456 4699958
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 42.415278, 12.100833
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 42° 24′ 55″ N, 12° 6′ 3″ E
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, marble (Carrara)
Font Shape: hemispheric, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round