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    "localId": "32623",
    "label": "Allegory of the Papacy of Clement XI",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1897"
}

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    "id": "32623",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1897",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Allegory of the Papacy of Clement XI",
    "description": "In this allegory, various symbolic motifs are brought together to express Clement XI's papacy (r. 1700-1721) as an abstract concept. The standing woman at center wearing the papal tiara is holding her cape in a protective manner over a little temple supported by angels. She may by an allegory of Religion protecting the Roman Church. To the base, on which she stands like a column, are chained different agonized figures symbolizing vices, an allusion to Protestants and Muslims. Above, Fame blows her horn while pointing to a portrait of the pontiff. The allegory as a whole is a portrait or a mirror of the pope and his virtues.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 96, as Tiepolo; 1897 catalogue: no. 355, as Sebastiano Ricci]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1720 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.1897",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Painting & Drawing",
        "oil paintings (visual works)"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 70.4,
            "height": 52.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Painted surface H: 27 11/16 x W: 20 9/16 in. (70.4 x 52.2 cm)"
}

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    "med": "oil on copper",
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    ],
    "collection_ids": [
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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