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    "localId": "11121",
    "label": "Monstrance of Thadea Petrucci",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.51"
}

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    "id": "11121",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.51",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Monstrance of Thadea Petrucci",
    "description": "An inscription around the stem of this fourteenth-century reliquary from Florence celebrates \"Mistress Thadea Petrucci,\" who had the receptacle made \"for the salvation of her dead.\" Thadea's gift, made during a period dominated by the experience of the Black Death (1347-1351) poignantly demonstrates the redemptive value attributed to such offerings. Contributing to the beauty of the Lord's temple was a way to gain God's benevolence at the time judgment. Here, the act of giving is sanctioned by the patron.",
    "provenance": "Thadea Petrucci, ca. 1340-1350, by commission;  Camillo Castiglioni, Vienna [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Sale, Amsterdam, November 17-20, 1925, no. 232;  Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924-1926 (?) [mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1340-1350 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/53.51",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "monstrances"
    ],
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    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_53.51_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_53.51_Fnt_DD_T11.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 63.5,
            "height": 23.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 25 x Diam: 9 3/8 in. (63.5 x 23.8 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "gilded copper, enamel, rock crystal",
    "creator_ids": [
        "18723"
    ],
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        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2064"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_53.51_DetA_DD_T11.jpg",
    "mediaId": "624edb99faca8306"
}