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    "localId": "145485",
    "label": "Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours: The Consecration of Saint Martin as Bishop (left); Saint Martin Shares his Cloak with a Beggar",
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    "id": "145485",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours: The Consecration of Saint Martin as Bishop (left); Saint Martin Shares his Cloak with a Beggar",
    "description": "This beautiful and well-preserved diptych includes its original polychromy, gilding, and silver hinges, though these are no longer connected. With its lapis background, red roof tiles, and gilded details of the figures’ clothing, the appearance is one of luxuriousness. The diptych provides us with a rare and vivid impression of how such devotional ivories were originally decorated in the 1300s.",
    "date": "1340–1350",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.103",
    "rights": "CC0",
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    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.103/1971.103_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.); Closed: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Germany, Cologne"
    ],
    "accession": "1971.103"
}

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    "tec": "ivory with polychromy and gilding, original silver hinges",
    "tombstone": "Diptych with Scenes from the Life of Saint Martin of Tours: The Consecration of Saint Martin as Bishop (left); Saint Martin Shares his Cloak with a Beggar, 1340–1350. Germany, Cologne. Ivory with polychromy and gilding, original silver hinges; overall: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.); closed: 5.2 cm (2 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1971.103",
    "collection": "MED - Gothic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Barnet, Peter. <em>Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age</em>. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 198-199"
        },
        {
            "citation": "“Twelve Additions to the Medieval Treasury.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 59, no. 4 (April 1972): 87–111.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 95-101, fig. 23z, Back Cover",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152426"
        },
        {
            "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 61",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n81"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Täube , Dagmar von, Miriam Verena Fleck, eds. <em>Glanz und Grösse des Mittelalters: Kölner Meisterwerke aus den grossen Sammlungen der Welt</em>. München, Germany: Hirmer Verlag, 2011.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 271-273"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1971.103",
    "creditline": "Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:28:26.562000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1971.103/1971.103_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 145485,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Gothic",
    "med": "ivory with polychromy and gilding, original silver hinges",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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