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    "localId": "152810",
    "label": "Votive or Civic Badge with a Crowned Figure Kneeling before Christ",
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    "id": "152810",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Votive or Civic Badge with a Crowned Figure Kneeling before Christ",
    "description": "This brooch was probably made to fasten a ceremonial cloak, and may have been intended as a diplomatic gift or memento. The central composition parallels the main face of the famous gold coin, a ducat, of the Venetian Doge Giovanni Dandolo minted in 1288-1289. Unlike the coin, the medallion is neither struck or diecast; it is tooled and chased, making it one of a kind.",
    "date": "c. 1300",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.61",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60761404"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.61/1985.61_web.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.61/1985.61_web.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.61/1985.61_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 3.4 x 2.4 cm (1 5/16 x 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Venice"
    ],
    "accession": "1985.61"
}

{
    "tec": "gold repoussé medallion under glass inset within a bronze clasp",
    "tombstone": "Votive or Civic Badge with a Crowned Figure Kneeling before Christ, c. 1300. Italy, Venice. Gold repoussé medallion under glass inset within a bronze clasp; overall: 3.4 x 2.4 cm (1 5/16 x 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art in honor of Mrs. Norman S. Jeavons, 1985.61",
    "collection": "MED - Gothic",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1985.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 2 (February 1986): 26–71.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 43; Mentioned: p. 63, no. 43",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159930"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Winter, Patrick M. de. “Recent Accessions of Italian Renaissance Decorative Arts, Part I: Incorporating Notes on the Sculptor Severo Da Ravenna.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 73, no. 3 (March 1986): 74–138.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 78-79, fig. 12",
            "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159934"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.61",
    "creditline": "Gift of the Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art in honor of Mrs. Norman S. Jeavons",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 07:54:04.885000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.61/1985.61_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 152810,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Gothic",
    "med": "gold repoussé medallion under glass inset within a bronze clasp",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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