# Baptismal font: Prophet

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## Artwork

- Artist: [QUERCIA, Jacopo della](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2>)
- Date: 1401-1450
- Technique: Marble

## Commentary

The upper portion of the baptismal font consists of a hexagonal marble tabernacle set on a thick, fluted base that rises from a pillar in the centre of the basin. Five of the six faces of the tabernacle contain marble prophets, clothed in voluminous draperies and situated before scallop-shaped niches defined by pilasters. These prophets have not been specifically identified, although all are highly individualized. The picture shows one of the five prophets.

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- [Acca Larentia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/acca-larentia-r6f600ffbbc1153>)
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- [Acca Larentia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/acca-larentia-ra16d6e24d96648>)
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- [Angel of the Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/angel-of-the-annunciation-re59ceb4ab40f2e>)
- [Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/annunciation-r1229c519d9a886>)
- [Annunciation](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/annunciation-r130b5b5e78fb5b>)
- [Baptismal font: Annunciation to Zacharias](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/baptismal-font-annunciation-to-zacharias-r247eb32fc56030>)
- [Baptismal font: Annunciation to Zacharias](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/baptismal-font-annunciation-to-zacharias-r66f5164c540efc>)
- [Baptismal font: Prophet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/baptismal-font-prophet-r0a8a257fc7f1e9>)
- [Baptismal font: Prophet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/baptismal-font-prophet-r357dd530b32963>)
- [Baptismal font: Prophet](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/quercia-jacopo-della-r665dca6177d9b2/baptismal-font-prophet-r48ef80af2d3fe2>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)