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    "localId": "760",
    "label": "Plaque with Apollo and Daphne",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.280"
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    "id": "760",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.280",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Plaque with Apollo and Daphne",
    "description": "The story of Daphne is told by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BC-AD 17) in \"The Metamorphoses.\" Cupid, god of love, shot the god Apollo with a gold-tipped arrow, kindling his love for the nymph Daphne, but Cupid shot her with one tipped with lead, stifling love.  Pursued by Apollo, Daphne prayed to her father, a river god, to save her, and she was transformed into a laurel tree.Ovid's tales were popular for their eroticism.  In addition, the idea of metamorphosis, a fundamental, divinely sanctioned change of state, offered a way of thinking about the creative act, as in the transformation of a chunk of copper ore into a bronze statuette.Jacques Laudin, who monogrammed this plaque, adapted the composition from an engraving of 1589 after a drawing by the Dutch artist Hendrick Goltzius.  The frame is original.",
    "provenance": "Ralph Bernal [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, London, March 5, 1855, lot 1530; T. Russell Kent [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, London, November 24, 1908, lot 71; George Robinson Harding, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 21, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "ca. 1650 (Baroque)",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/44.280",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Enamels",
        "plaques"
    ],
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    "dimensions": [
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            "units": "cm",
            "width": 16,
            "height": 20.6
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 6 5/16 x W: 8 1/8 in. (16 x 20.6 cm)"
}

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    "med": "painted enamel with traces of gilding on copper; gilded brass frame",
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