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    "localId": "18287",
    "label": "Plaque with the Virgin's House at Loreto",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.305"
}

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    "id": "18287",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.305",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plaque with the Virgin's House at Loreto",
    "description": "According to legend, around 1300, angels carried the Virgin's cottage in Nazareth-site of the miracle of the incarnation (God conceived in human form)- to Loreto, Italy. Here, the Virgin, holding Jesus and a chalice, sits on her house to suggest her presence there. An angel holds a scroll inscribed in Latin: \"Holy Mary of Loreto, pray for us.\" Wild animals, including a unicorn, are tamed by the Virgin's purity. Two chapels devoted to the House at Loreto were built with the support of the archdukes, and Isabella had a replica of it built for the Franciscans.",
    "provenance": "A. von Lanna Collection, Prague [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. von Lanna Sale, Berlin, November 9, 1909, no. 71; George Robinson Harding, London, 1909, by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1550 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.305",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "plaques"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 3,
    "pageCount": 3,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 8.9,
            "height": 11.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 1/2 x W: 4 7/16 in. (8.9 x 11.3 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Translation] Holy Mary of Loreto",
        "pray for us"
    ],
    "med": "paint and gilded enamel on copper (partially re-enameled), gilded metal",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5908"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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