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    "localId": "34825",
    "label": "Southern Seaport in a Storm",
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    "contentType": "drawing",
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    "title": "Southern Seaport in a Storm",
    "description": "In 17th-century Europe, what caused storms and weather in general was not understood. Many people saw terrible storms in a personalized way, as evidence of God's power and anger at human failings. The wreckage of a ship and crewmen fighting for their lives can be seen in the violent waves in the foreground. The mountains and style of architecture indicate the Italian coast, so a viewer in Antwerp could feel a satisfying shudder without feeling directly threatened. The shipwreck off a mountainous (and therefore foreign) coast  was a favored theme for Jan Peeters, as in a similar painting in The Hermitage Museum In St. Petersberg.",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1660-1669 (Baroque)",
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    "language": "en",
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    "dimensions": [
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