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baptistery
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bap·tis·ter·y also bap·tis·try  (bpt-str)
n. pl. bap·tis·ter·ies also bap·tis·tries
1. A part of a church or a separate building used for baptizing.
2. A font used for baptism.
[Middle English baptisterie, from Old French, from Late Latin baptistrium, from Greek baptistrion, from baptizein, to baptize; see baptize.]
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Noun1.baptisterybaptistery - bowl for baptismal water            
baptismal font, baptistry, font
basin - a bowl-shaped vessel; usually used for holding food or liquids; "she mixed the dough in a large basin"


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Unlike much of Renaissance architecture, where we easily recognize a representation of the Corinthian order, triumphal arch, temple front, or tholos, and in contrast to certain Tuscan Romanesque buildings such as the Baptisteries of Florence and Pisa, respectively modeled directly on the Pantheon and Holy Sepulchre, the Florentine Trecento developed in its major buildings an extremely sophisticated and poetic art of allusion, collaging, and concatenation of representational for ms.
Architecture and Music Reunited: A New Reading of Dufay's Nuper ... by TRACHTENBERG, MARVIN / Renaissance Quarterly
From the beginning, Wesley's paintings have been permeated by the atmosphere of this kind of ornament--by the ambience of Greek vessels, Scythian tattoos, Roman mosaic, Islamic tile work, chivalric heraldry, Gothic illumination, Edo screens, and Rococo baptisteries.
TOUCHE BOUCHER JOHN WESLEY'S GALLANT SUBJECTS by HICKEY, DAVE / Artforum International
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