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    "localId": "22721",
    "label": "Medal with the Portrait of Pope Paul III",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.461"
}

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    "id": "22721",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.461",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Medal with the Portrait of Pope Paul III",
    "description": "Pope Paul III (reigned 1534-1549), born Alessandro Farnese, presided over the opening session of the Council of Trent (1545-63), the embodiment of a far-reaching reform movement within the Catholic Church for which Emperor Charles V had pressed. Such a medal could have been valued as much for its associations as for its artistic merit.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1545-1550 (Renaissance)",
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        "medals"
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Diam: 1 9/16 in. (4 cm)"
}

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    "reign": "Pope Paul III (1534-1549)",
    "med": "gilded bronze",
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