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    "localId": "32402",
    "label": "Medal of Architect Gianello della Torre",
    "core": "obj",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.584"
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    "id": "32402",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.584",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Medal of Architect Gianello della Torre",
    "description": "The Latin inscription, \"IANELIUS.TURRIAN.CREMON.HOROLOG.ARCHITECT,\" along the edge of the medal indicates that Gianello (1500-1585) was a clockmaker and architect from the city of Cremona. One of his contemporaries described him as a \"bull in human form,\" and his rough features in this medal reflect this characterization. A collector of timepieces would have been thrilled to have a portrait of a prominent clockmaker.This medal was produced before Jacopo da Trezzo left Milan (near Cremona) in 1555 for the Southern Netherlands to enter the service of King Philip II of Spain.",
    "provenance": "Frédéric Spitzer, Paris, by purchase; Sale, Paul Chevallier and Charles Mannheim, April 17, 1893, no. 91; Henry Walters, New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Sadie Jones (Mrs. Henry Walters), New York, 1931, by inheritance; Sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 2, 1941, no. 1260; Douglas Huntly Gordon, Baltimore, 1941, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1941, by gift.",
    "date": "ca. 1550 (Early Modern)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/59.584",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "bronzes"
    ],
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 0.5,
            "height": 7.9
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "D: 3/16 × Diam: 3 1/8 in. (0.5 × 7.9 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Italian",
    "inscriptions": "[Inscription]: IANELIUS.TURRIAN.CREMON.HOROLOG.ARCHITECT",
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