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{
    "localId": "7865",
    "label": "Plaque with Cavalry Battle between Greeks and Trojans",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.133"
}

{
    "id": "7865",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.133",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plaque with Cavalry Battle between Greeks and Trojans",
    "description": "This plaque together with its counterpart (44.132), each painted in \"sfumato grisaille,\" were surely from a series set into a casket. One of the commanding figures is identified as Hector, the most valiant of the Trojans in \"The Iliad,\" the Homeric epic chronicling the Greek conquest of Troy; so the overall theme may have been the Trojan War. The artist took motifs from an engraving after a composition by the Italian master Giulio Romano (1499-1546) that represented a military campaign of the Roman general Scipio Africanus.The monogram \"KIP,\" found here, is thought to be that of Jean Poillevé.",
    "provenance": "Collection of Baron de Theïs Sale, 1874, no. 55; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1550 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.133",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "plaques"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.133_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.133_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_44.133_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 7,
            "height": 8.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 2 3/4 × W: 3 1/2 in. (7 × 8.9 cm)"
}

{
    "med": "painted enamel on copper",
    "creator_ids": [
        "5908"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2379",
        "133"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL9_44.133_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "mediaId": "7481f36d43337bf7"
}