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{
    "localId": "97039",
    "label": "Schiavona Broadsword",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object"
}

{
    "id": "97039",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Schiavona Broadsword",
    "description": "The schiavona-type broadsword features a complex barred guard that slopes forward. Its name derives from the Italian word for \"Slavonic\" and refers to the Slavonian corps who served as bodyguards to the Doge of Venice until the end of the Venetian Republic in 1797. Such swords were popular mainly with Venetians.",
    "date": "early 1700s",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.693",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q60751658"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Arms and Armor"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.693/1916.693_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 109.9 cm (43 1/4 in.); Blade: 94 cm (37 in.); Grip: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.); Guard: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Italy, Venice"
    ],
    "accession": "1916.693"
}

{
    "tec": "steel, leather, wood, brass",
    "tombstone": "Schiavona Broadsword, early 1700s. Italy, Venice. Steel, leather, wood, brass; overall: 109.9 cm (43 1/4 in.); blade: 94 cm (37 in.); grip: 9.2 cm (3 5/8 in.); guard: 13.3 cm (5 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance, 1916.693",
    "collection": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "blade inscribed: POTZDAM"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Usually used by the military, a broadsword has a straight, wide, two-edged blade a with basket-shaped guard that helps protect the hand.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Catalogue of Arms and Armour. Vol. 2, 16th century. [Boston, Massachusetts]: [Frank Gair Macomber], [1900-1915].",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: No. (93) 96",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/CatArmsArmour2_201602/page/n407"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Gilchrist, Helen Ives. <em>A Catalogue of the Collection of Arms &amp; Armor Presented to the Cleveland Museum of Art by Mr. and Mrs. John Long Severance; 1916-1923</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1924.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 106, E48",
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/SeveranceCollection1924/page/n162"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms and Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Museum, 1998.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 126, p. 168"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Fliegel, Stephen N. <em>Arms &amp; Armor: The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007.",
            "page_number": "cat. no. 169, p. 191"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.693",
    "creditline": "Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Severance",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 05:13:41.397000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.693/1916.693_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 97039,
    "dept": "Medieval Art",
    "coll": "MED - Arms & Armor",
    "med": "steel, leather, wood, brass",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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