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    "localId": "37168",
    "label": "Plaque with the Adoration of the Shepherds",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.85"
}

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    "id": "37168",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.85",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plaque with the Adoration of the Shepherds",
    "description": "Valerio Belli is the first great engraver of rock crystal and other semiprecious stones of the Renaissance.  The subject of this plaque is Christian, indeed, the shape suggests a freestanding devotional work, but the firm, athletic, precisely modeled bodies reflect Belli's admiration of the aesthetics of classical, pagan antiquity.The artist has signed his name in Latin on the Roman-style pedestal base of a broken column behind St. Joseph.  With great virtuosity, Belli has defined the perspective of the simple roof with a vanishing point behind the column, creating a deep space behind the frieze-like arrangement of the figures.",
    "provenance": "Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1530-1546 (Renaissance)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/41.85",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "plaques"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "pageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.5,
            "height": 8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. (11.5 x 8 cm)"
}

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    "med": "rock crystal, gilded copper frame",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": []
}

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