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    "localId": "77559",
    "label": "Love is Blind",
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    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.476.3R"
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    "title": "Love is Blind",
    "description": "Emblem books were a popular source of amusement during the late medieval period. They offered mysterious images whose meaning had to be puzzled out through a combination of contemplating the illustration and reading the accompanying text. These emblems offered a moral to be pondered, and often the message was related to love. Here, a blindfolded man precariously teeters at the top of a cliff and, unaware of the danger, takes a step forward. The moral: love is blind.",
    "provenance": "Olschki [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, ca. 1905, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "1570 (High Renaissance)",
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    "language": "en",
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    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 23.2,
            "height": 17
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 9 1/8 x W: 6 11/16 in. (23.2 x 17 cm)"
}

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