This photo dates to March 2018 in Palermo in Sicily, It shows the baptismal font at the entrance to the cathedral. The font is attributed to Domenico Gagini. The middle relief celebrates the inauguration of the baptismal font with an imaginary Renaissance urban landscape. Antonello Gagini did the tabernacle for the cathedral. He is considered the best Renaissance Sicilian sculptor. He was the son of Domenico, a sculptor who was born in 1420 at Bissone, today in Switzerland, but at the time a possession of the Duchy of Milan. After having worked at Florence, Genoa and Naples, he moved to Palerm

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This photo dates to March 2018 in Palermo in Sicily, It shows the baptismal font at the entrance to the cathedral. The font is attributed to Domenico Gagini. The middle relief celebrates the inauguration of the baptismal font with an imaginary Renaissance urban landscape. Antonello Gagini did the tabernacle for the cathedral. He is considered the best Renaissance Sicilian sculptor. He was the son of Domenico, a sculptor who was born in 1420 at Bissone, today in Switzerland, but at the time a possession of the Duchy of Milan. After having worked at Florence, Genoa and Naples, he moved to Palermo in 1463 and lived there until his death in 1492. His baptismal font shows that he was very familiar with Italian Renaissance paintings and sculptures.

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Size: 2873px × 6300px
Location: Salita Giuseppe Artale, 3, 90134 Palermo PA, Italy
Photo credit: © Ivy Close Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1500s, 15th, arab, architectural, art, assumption, baptismal, cathedral, century, domenico, font, gagini, mary, norman, palermo, renaissance, sculptor, sicily, style, virgin