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{
    "localId": "37105",
    "label": "Diptych with the Virgin and Child, and the Crucifixion",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.276"
}

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    "id": "37105",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.276",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Diptych with the Virgin and Child, and the Crucifixion",
    "description": "On this diptych, the emotional quality of the Crucifixion is increased by the detail of the blood that spurts from Christ's side and pierces the Virgin's breast like a knife. This motif probably originated in Germany and was derived from the prophecy of the holy man Simeon (in the Gospel of Luke) that a sword would pierce the Virgin's soul as a mark of her special suffering.",
    "provenance": "George de Waroquier, Toulouse; Sigismond Bardac, Paris; Arnold Seligmann, New York; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1350-1360 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/71.276",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Ivory & Bone",
        "diptychs",
        "ivories"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.276_Opn_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.276_Opn_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_71.276_Opn_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 20.5,
            "height": 26.2,
            "depth": 1
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "8 1/16 x 10 5/16 x 3/8 in. (20.5 x 26.2 x 1 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "French",
    "style": "Gothic",
    "inscriptions": [
        "On the back of the right leaf inscribed in faded ink: Ardenus Grassus de Morario loci de Burossa Lascurensis diocesis; [Traslation] Ardenus Grassus de Morario",
        "of Buros",
        "in the diocese of Lascar."
    ],
    "med": "ivory with traces of paint",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6229"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2064",
        "2052"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 1,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/PL1_71.276_Opn_TR_T97III.jpg",
    "mediaId": "941c2279bb4d1c12"
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