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    "localId": "37364",
    "label": "Lapith Combating a Centaur",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "sculpture",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.36"
}

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    "id": "37364",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.36",
    "contentType": "sculpture",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Lapith Combating a Centaur",
    "description": "The hero Theseus has leapt on Bianor's back and seized him by the neck as he prepares to deliver a deadly blow. Barye has depicted an incident from The Metamorphoses, a history of the world by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17). In ancient Greece, the Lapiths, a mythical people of Thessaly, invited to the centaurs to a wedding. The centaurs were mythical creatures, half man and half horse, who roamed Arcadia, a region of Greece, and were notoriously destructive. All the centaurs were killed following a fight that erupted when they tried to carry off the Lapith women.",
    "provenance": "William T. Walters, Baltimore, prior to 1889; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "modeled 1846-1848",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/27.36",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Sculpture",
        "sculpture (visual works)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 34.6,
            "height": 38.1,
            "depth": 13.7
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "13 5/8 x 15 x 5 3/8 in. (34.6 x 38.1 x 13.7 cm)"
}

{
    "inscriptions": "[Signature] Cast through from model: BARYE.",
    "med": "bronze with dark green over dark brown-black patina",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6082"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "EAN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1956",
        "631",
        "2310"
    ]
}

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