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{
    "localId": "36821",
    "label": "Reliquary with Relics of Christ's Shroud and of Various Martyrs",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/62.3"
}

{
    "id": "36821",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/62.3",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Reliquary with Relics of Christ's Shroud and of Various Martyrs",
    "description": "This reliquary originally housed about 60 Christian relics, including one said to be from the shroud of Christ. On the front are the image of St. James and a piece of bone identified as being from the apostle, who was believed to have preached in Spain and whose purported relics were venerated by pilgrims at Santiago da Compostela in northwestern Spain. Ferdinand á Crespos gave this reliquary to the Church of St. Michael in Fuenfria in 1598.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1598 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/62.3",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Lacquer & Inlay",
        "caskets (personal gear)",
        "reliquaries",
        "relics"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_62.3_VwB_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_62.3_VwB_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PS1_62.3_VwB_DD_T07-2.jpg",
    "imageCount": 4,
    "pageCount": 4,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 31.4,
            "height": 17.9,
            "depth": 18.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 12 3/8 x W: 7 1/16 x D: 7 1/8 in. (31.43 x 17.94 x 18.1 cm)"
}

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    "med": "tempera on paper, gilding, wood, mica, ivory, bone",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6242",
        "15493"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "BAR"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2115"
    ]
}

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    "pageIndex": 0,
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    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_62.3_VwE_DD_T07-2.jpg",
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