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lavabo

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lavabo
In monasteries of the Middle Ages, a large stone basin from which the water flowed through a number of small orifices around the edges, for the convenient performance of ablutions before religious exercises or meals.


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The abbey contains many notable buildings, including a beautifully decorated lavabo on the north side resplendent with lion?
Experienced travelers have experienced painful costly experiences, when they found themselves trapped to pay for a new lavabo or others broken furniture.
On the basis of the fragmentary remains of the documented tomb of Lemmo Balducci now in the Church of Sant'Egidio in Florence (1472), Pisani persuasively attributes to Ferrucci the lavabo in the Sala di Ester in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (ca.
 
 
 
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