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DOI article:Timmermann, Achim: A promise of paradise: microarchitecture, baptism and the font ciborium of St. Severus in Erfurt =
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A PROMISE OF PARADISE
185
& Bedford Hours, Crerznon o/Pve, Fr///, FApa/.s/on/roor Para<7zXe
(V. 7-77P-2d), FonPon, PnfBA Lzbrarp, Ar7J. MS 7&X50,yb/. 74r:
time, the text furthermore traces the origin of the fountain's waters to the blood of Christ's
Passion. Thus activated through words, the architecture of the baptistery, with its central
piscina and dramatic corona of porphyry columns, transforms into a spiritual access point
to Chrisfs side wound, and ultimately, to Paradise itself.
Fappynra) FonF.' An 7conograp/:;'ga( &M<7y ('Acta Fningryitady FwgnyF' 6), Umea 1984,pgMyńn; Regine PERNOUD,
La Fontańrg & Mg, FzgnrgprFdggig da Moygn Agg c/zrgh'gn. 'Conaissance des arts' CCCXIX: 1978, pp. 100-08; Oscar
REUTERSVARD, ParadFgF MFa ocb & godandFła 'Farad/y/M^^"^'-' FP ^idrag PF ylMg/igt av uaPgnyym^o/Agn
pa & wg&Fida dop/anlarna (W. 47. 47an<7g/grgn AFay FF Frgriggy od/ingy/riytoWa FiFdgFa/7o' 6), Boras 1967; UN-
DERWOOD, F/rg Fonatain ofFi/g... (as in notę 28). But cf. equaily Evelyn UNDERH1LL, Foantain ofFi/g.' An /cono-
grap/nca/ Ftady, 'Burlington Magazine' XVII (1910), p. 103; BAUERRE1SS, Fony yacgr... (as in notę 26); Lola
SLEPTZOFF, FonPnngy myyppagy pro/angy gF/ny /'art <7a 75;'gmg Agc/g, 'Scripta Hierosolymitana'
XXIV: 1972, pp. 43-46; Catherine GOUEDO-THOMAS, FgyTdntaingy /ng<7igva/gy, ńnaggy gl rga/pg. 'Melanges de
1'Ecole franęaise de Romę: Moyen Age' CIV: 1992, pp. 511-513; William D. WIXOM, A G/ńnpyg at Frg FoMntainy ;'n
tFg A7/'<7F/g Aggy, 'Cleveland Studies in the Elistory of Art' VIII: 2003, pp. 6-23.
185
& Bedford Hours, Crerznon o/Pve, Fr///, FApa/.s/on/roor Para<7zXe
(V. 7-77P-2d), FonPon, PnfBA Lzbrarp, Ar7J. MS 7&X50,yb/. 74r:
time, the text furthermore traces the origin of the fountain's waters to the blood of Christ's
Passion. Thus activated through words, the architecture of the baptistery, with its central
piscina and dramatic corona of porphyry columns, transforms into a spiritual access point
to Chrisfs side wound, and ultimately, to Paradise itself.
Fappynra) FonF.' An 7conograp/:;'ga( &M<7y ('Acta Fningryitady FwgnyF' 6), Umea 1984,pgMyńn; Regine PERNOUD,
La Fontańrg & Mg, FzgnrgprFdggig da Moygn Agg c/zrgh'gn. 'Conaissance des arts' CCCXIX: 1978, pp. 100-08; Oscar
REUTERSVARD, ParadFgF MFa ocb & godandFła 'Farad/y/M^^"^'-' FP ^idrag PF ylMg/igt av uaPgnyym^o/Agn
pa & wg&Fida dop/anlarna (W. 47. 47an<7g/grgn AFay FF Frgriggy od/ingy/riytoWa FiFdgFa/7o' 6), Boras 1967; UN-
DERWOOD, F/rg Fonatain ofFi/g... (as in notę 28). But cf. equaily Evelyn UNDERH1LL, Foantain ofFi/g.' An /cono-
grap/nca/ Ftady, 'Burlington Magazine' XVII (1910), p. 103; BAUERRE1SS, Fony yacgr... (as in notę 26); Lola
SLEPTZOFF, FonPnngy myyppagy pro/angy gF/ny /'art <7a 75;'gmg Agc/g, 'Scripta Hierosolymitana'
XXIV: 1972, pp. 43-46; Catherine GOUEDO-THOMAS, FgyTdntaingy /ng<7igva/gy, ńnaggy gl rga/pg. 'Melanges de
1'Ecole franęaise de Romę: Moyen Age' CIV: 1992, pp. 511-513; William D. WIXOM, A G/ńnpyg at Frg FoMntainy ;'n
tFg A7/'<7F/g Aggy, 'Cleveland Studies in the Elistory of Art' VIII: 2003, pp. 6-23.