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    "localId": "26399",
    "label": "Evangelist Matthew Seated",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.E"
}

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    "id": "26399",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.E",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Evangelist Matthew Seated",
    "description": "This author portrait once preceded the Gospels of Matthew and Mark in a Gospel Book in Mount Athos at the Monastery of Great Lavra. They are attributable to the leading book illuminator in Constantinople during the second quarter of the twelfth century. His real name is unknown, and he has been conventionally named the Kokkinobaphos Master.",
    "provenance": "[Folios 1bis and 117bis in Mount Athos, Great Lavra MS A44]; Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "2nd quarter 12th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.E",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Manuscripts & Rare Books",
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.530.D-E.W.530.EV_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.530.D-E.W.530.EV_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.530.D-E.W.530.EV_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 22.6,
            "height": 15.3
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 8 7/8 x W: 6 in. (22.6 x 15.3 cm)"
}

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    "style": "Byzantine",
    "med": "ink and pigments on good quality parchment",
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    ],
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        "MED"
    ],
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    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.530.D-E.W.530.EV_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "dd7104ed87d0477f"
}