Ask the Scholar

{
    "localId": "26050",
    "label": "Monogram with a lion breathing on two cubs",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.33.7V"
}

{
    "id": "26050",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.33.7V",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Monogram with a lion breathing on two cubs",
    "description": "This historiated monogram is a contraction for the word \"Deus\" and was painted by an artist called Gottschalk of Lambach.",
    "provenance": "Benedictine abbey of Melk or Seitenstetten [patron saints of Melk - Peter and Paul, and Cholomannus (fol. 212r), liturgy for use in Melk diocese] [made for the abbey];  [textual additions and corrections in 13th-15th century hands];  [rear pastedown is 15th-century breviary folio];  Seitenstetten Stiftsbibliothek, 1913 [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Ms. 127, described in 1913 Swarzenski publication];  Jacques Rosenthal [bookplate on inside of upper binding] [cat. 90, 1928 no. 167];  Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 12th-early 13th century (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.33.7V",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.33.7V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.33.7V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.33.7V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 26.5,
            "height": 17
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 10 7/16 x W: 6 11/16 in. (26.5 x 17 cm)"
}

{
    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "ink and pigments on cream-colored parchment of medium thickness",
    "creator_ids": [
        "8500",
        "6521"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED",
        "MSS"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "3604"
    ]
}

{
    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.33.7V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "928cf989aa9cac9c"
}