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{
    "localId": "26806",
    "label": "Head of an Archangel",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.323"
}

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    "id": "26806",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.323",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Head of an Archangel",
    "description": "This fresco fragment, perhaps from Salonika (modern-day Thessaloniki, Greece), depicts a curly-haired angel wearing a robe with a jeweled neckline. The smooth modeling of the face evokes the idealized, heavenly nature of this figure.",
    "provenance": "[Said to be from Thessaloniki [Salonika]]; Joseph Brummer, New York, October 28, 1923, by purchase [Brummer inv. no. 770, 771, or 772 - sold together as lot]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, December 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "14th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.323",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "fragments"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.323_Fnt_BW_5472.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.323_Fnt_BW_5472.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.323_Fnt_BW_5472.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 15.6,
            "height": 11.1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 6 1/8 x 4 3/8 in. (15.6 x 11.1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Orthodox Eastern",
    "inscriptions": "[Transcription] Scalloped circular sticker on reverse in lower left corner: DOUANE CENTRALE PARIS",
    "med": "possibly tempera on plaster",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "358"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL7_37.323_Fnt_BW_5472.jpg",
    "mediaId": "e18cc501c04a8d6c"
}