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    "localId": "37957",
    "label": "Prudence",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.52"
}

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    "id": "37957",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.52",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Prudence",
    "description": "This winged figure holding the head of a serpent that curls round its chest probably represents the virtue Prudence, in accordance with Jesus' words: \"be wise as serpents. . .\" (Matthew 10:16). Along with the divine virtues of \"faith, hope, and love\" (1 Corinthians 13:13), justice, fortitude, temperance, and prudence were considered during the Middle Ages to be the principal worldly virtues. This statuette must have been part of a set placed at the base of a portable altar, candlestick, or baptismal font. It closely resembles in style the early 12th-century bronze doors of the Church of Saint Zeno in Verona.",
    "provenance": "Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York [date of acquisition unknown], by purchase; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1135 (Medieval)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.52",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metal",
        "figurines"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL1_54.52_Fnt_TR_T01IV.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 11.4,
            "height": 7.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "4 1/2 x 3 in. (11.4 x 7.6 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Italian",
    "style": "Romanesque",
    "med": "bronze",
    "creator_ids": [
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    ],
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        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "1957",
        "2177",
        "2121",
        "246",
        "2752"
    ]
}

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