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    "localId": "35475",
    "label": "Idealized Portrait of the Poet Homer",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.646"
}

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    "id": "35475",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.646",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Idealized Portrait of the Poet Homer",
    "description": "The old man honored by a laurel wreath is Homer, the greatest poet of antiquity, identified by the inscription on the sheet of paper with the names of the cities that claimed Homer as a native.  This imaginary portrait (no one knows what he looked like) is not so much a celebration of the author of the early Greek epic poems- The Iliad and The Odyssey- but of the fame that a poet could achieve.This splendid painting is dated but not signed. The forceful modeling suggests a Flemish painter influenced by Caravaggio (Italian, 1571-1610).",
    "provenance": "Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1639 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.646",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 72.1,
            "height": 56.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 28 3/8 x W: 22 3/8 in. (72.1 x 56.8 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "Dated lower left.",
    "med": "oil on panel",
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}

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