Baptistère de Cadenet

About

The Baptistery of Cadenet, still known as the baptismal fonts of Cadenet is an ancient marble basin, decorated with mythological bas-reliefs, installed in one of the lateral chapels of the parish church Saint-Étienne in Cadenet in the French department of Vaucluse and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.

Site and object: Cadenet is a small town named after the Pagus Caudellensis, whose inscription has retained the name. Its parish church, whose first building elements are dated to the twelfth century, is named after St Stephen. She succeeded a priory of the monks of Saint-Victor de Marseille. Its baptismal fonts have the shape of a half-ellipse, with the half-large axis 38 inches and the small axis 30 inches. They're made of white marble. The exterior represents a series of characters whose style has a pronounced demarcation, on one side joy, on the other side pain. Everything suggests that the original destination of this marble was a tomb.

First descriptions: The first to describe Cadenet's baptismal fonts were Messrs. Achard and Mérimée. Claude-François Achard was the first to report their existence...