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    "localId": "26440",
    "label": "Flying and Adoring Angels",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1027"
}

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    "id": "26440",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1027",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Flying and Adoring Angels",
    "description": "This early work by Fetti was installed in the chapel of the Mainardi family in the church of San Lorenzo in Damaso in Rome. It was painted as a background for an image of the Virgin and Child in an oval frame. At some point, the inset painting was removed, and today there is an 18th-century Virgin and Child in its place. During the 17th century, early religious images were often considered more sacred than contemporary ones, which explains why Fetti was commissioned to paint a monumental work to frame and enhance another picture.For more information on this painting, please see Federico Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 312, pp. 439-441.",
    "provenance": "The Church of San Lorenzo, Damaso, Rome, 1614/1615-ca. 1868, by commission; Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 271]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1613-1614 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1027",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 174.7,
            "height": 103.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Painted surface H: 68 3/4 x W: 40 7/8 in. (174.7 x 103.9 cm)"
}

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    ],
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