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    "localId": "11968",
    "label": "Pendant/Medal with the Fall of Man and the Crucifixion",
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    "id": "11968",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.622",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Pendant/Medal with the Fall of Man and the Crucifixion",
    "description": "In 1535, Reinhart completed a stunning portrait medal of Johann Friedrich, duke of Saxony, and, the following year, the duke commissioned this medal, to which on some versions a ring was added to make it into a pendant. With its particular interpretation of the theme of the Fall and redemption of man, so central to the Reformation theology preached by Martin Luther and his followers, it is the first Lutheran medal.",
    "provenance": "Mrs. Henry Walters Sale, New York; Douglas H. Gordon, Baltimore, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1943, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1536 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.622",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Coins & Medals",
        "medals",
        "pendants"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 9,
            "height": 7,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 3 9/16 × W: 2 3/4 × D: 3/8 in. (9 × 7 × 1 cm)"
}

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    "inscriptions": "On the obverse (The Fall):ET.SICVT.IN.ADAM.OMNES.MORIVNTVR.ITA.ET.IN.CHRISTVM.OMNES.VIVIFICABVNTVR.VNVSQVISQVE.INORDINE.SVObelow the scene on a scroll:IONNAIS.FRIDERICVS.ELECTOR.DVX.SAXONIE.FIERI.FECITOn the reverse (The Crucifixion):VT.MOSES.EREXIT.SERPeTe; ITa.chrS.IN.CRVCE.EXALTATVS.ET.RESVSCiTATVS.CAPVT.SERPeTiS.CONTIViT.VT.On a scroll beneath the main scene:SPES.MEA.IN.DEO.EST.",
    "med": "gilded silver",
    "creator_ids": [
        "4494"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "666"
    ]
}

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