PT Journal
AU Kroupa, P
   Varhanik, J
   Zavrel, J
TI Discovery of a Fragment of an Early Gothic Stone Baptismal Font in Kresin Village
SO Pruzkumy pamatek
PY 2020
BP 131
EP 135
VL 27
IS 2
DI 10.56112/pp.2020.2.08
WP https://pruzkumypamatek.cz/en/artkey/prp-202002-0008.php
DE Kresin - Zeliv - Velehrad - Regensburg - Tisnov - baptismal font - fragment - vegetal decor - frieze - 13th century - Danubian art
SN 12121487
AB The preserved fragment shows parts of two sides of a polygonal structure that belonged to the upper part of a twelve-sided baptismal font. The circumferential relief decoration below the font's top is the most valuable part of the preserved fragment. Certain analogies are found with some friezes with vegetal decoration on the western portal of the church in Porta Coeli Cistercian Convent in Predklasteri near Tisnov whose architecture also ranks in the wider circle of the Danubian art of the second quarter of the 13th century. The discovered fragment provides evidence that the baptismal font, especially its size and artistic decoration, went beyond the common types of baptismal fonts in village churches. The baptismal font may have originally been made for a significant structure in Kresin's vicinity and arrived in Kresin only secondarily. This structure may be identified with the Premonstratensian Monastery located in nearby Zeliv, which is a Romanesque monastic compound or the Canonry of the Premonstratensian Sisters in Lounovice pod Blanikem.
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