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{
    "localId": "24802",
    "label": "Saint Sebastian",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.149"
}

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    "id": "24802",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.149",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Saint Sebastian",
    "description": "According to legend, Sebastian was a Roman soldier who refused to deny his Christian faith and worship the emperor as a god.  In consequence, he was tied to a tree and shot with arrows.  He survived but was then beaten to death.  Sebastian's strained gesture with one arm extended presupposes the existence of a tree (now missing), probably also in wood.  Even in its awkwardness, the saint's lean, wiry body appears to be based on observation of nature.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1525-1540 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.149",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Wood",
        "statuettes (statues)",
        "figurines"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_61.149_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_61.149_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL9_61.149_Fnt_BW.jpg",
    "imageCount": 6,
    "pageCount": 6,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "16 1/8 in. (40.9 cm)"
}

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    "med": "boxwood",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6211"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "REN"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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    "seq": 3,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PS1_61.149_3QtrRt_DD_T13.jpg",
    "mediaId": "d89f95fe4cb0323d"
}