Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 194
the far-famedweeping angelleans on a skull. —AMIENS. Amiens 171 and enigmatic detail, a baptismal font of the XII andXIII centuries. Its supports are short, deeply carvencolumns; its basin is simply ornamented, and thefigure of an Evangelist stands at each of its fourcorners. The font is curious… … a baptismal font of the XII AND XIII CEMURIES.—AMIENS. of a few others of the period which have the same formand have survived to the present day, Viollet-le-Ducsuggests that this large and unusual shape may indi-cate the persistence of the venerable custom of infantbaptism by immersion. The XII…
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