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{
    "localId": "33302",
    "label": "Head of a Saint",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.332"
}

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    "id": "33302",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.332",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Head of a Saint",
    "description": "This elderly saint with a long twisted beard and covered head is depicted frontally, directly confronting the viewer. His rich yellow halo adds to the impressiveness of his demeanor. He likely would have been accompanied originally by additional saints in the context of a church fresco.",
    "provenance": "Dikran Kelekian [date and mode of acquisition unknown; Kelekian inv. no. 3817]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "16th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/37.332",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "frescoes",
        "fragments"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.332_Fnt_BW_547.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.332_Fnt_BW_547.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL7_37.332_Fnt_BW_547.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 10.8,
            "height": 10.2
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Overall: 4 1/4 x 4 in. (10.8 x 10.2 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Orthodox Eastern",
    "inscriptions": [
        "[Transcription] Sticker on reverse in upper center: D. KELEKIAN; in pen: 3817; in pencil: 10; 2",
        "Place Vendôme; [Transcription] In pencil in upper left corner of reverse: Salonica; [Transcription] In pencil in upper right corner of reverse",
        "circled: 2"
    ],
    "med": "fresco with secco",
    "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_37.332_Fnt_BW_547.jpg",
    "mediaId": "cd7d40a13385161c"
}