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A Romanesque baptismal font from Grötlingbo Church, Sweden, carved by Sigraf, a master stone sculptor who specialised in baptismal fonts. A modern baptismal font in the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Houston, constructed in 2008. A baptismal font is an ecclesiastical architectural element, which serves as a receptacle for baptismal water ...
The baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège is a Romanesque brass or bronze baptismal font made between 1107 and 1118 now in the Collegiate Church of St. Bartholomew in Liège, Belgium. The font is a major masterpiece of Mosan art, remarkable for the classicism of its style, whose origin has been the subject of great debate among art ...
A holy water font or stoup is a vessel containing holy water which is generally placed near the entrance of a church. It is often placed at the base of a crucifix or other Christian art. It is used in Catholic, as well as many Lutheran and Anglican churches, to make the sign of the cross using the holy water upon entrance of the church. [1]
The font in Winchester Cathedral – the "most famous" of the Tournai fonts in England [14] – illustrates scenes from the life of St Nicholas of Myra on two faces, with three roundels of birds on the third and a roundel of a quadruped with birds on either side on the fourth. [14] It is the only font in the cathedral, and is located in the nave.
This ligature is in the Arabic Presentation Forms-A block, which was only encoded for compatibility and is not recommended for use in regular Arabic text. [ 2 ] Unicode defines the semantics of a character by its character identity and its normative properties , one of these being the character's general category , given as a two-letter code (e ...
Baptismal font attributed to Master Sigraf in Grötlingbo church, Gotland . Sigraf (also Sighraf, Sighrafr, fl. c.1175–1210) was a Romanesque stone sculptor, working on Gotland. He was mainly active as a sculptor of baptismal fonts, but also of reliquaries, carved pillars and reliefs. He was the most productive of several early medieval stone ...
A collection of fonts designed for Cyrillic and Glagolitic scripts used for the Church Slavonic liturgical language. CMU family: OFL: 2012-08-29 / 0.7.0 An updated version of Computer Modern (CMU is an abbreviation for Computer Modern Unicode). Culmus collection of fonts GPL 2 + font exception: 2018-09-30 / 0.133
St. Bartholomew is the site of one of the most known examples of ecclesiastical Mosan art, a baptismal font attributed to the goldsmith Renier de Huy. It was commissioned at the beginning of the 12th century (1107–1108) by the Abbot Hellin for the Church of Notre-Dame-aux-Fonts, now destroyed, where local baptisms traditionally were administered.