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{
    "localId": "25523",
    "label": "Miniature with the Apostles Paul and Peter and the Evangelists John, Luke, Matthew, and Mark",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "object",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.C"
}

{
    "id": "25523",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.C",
    "contentType": "object",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Miniature with the Apostles Paul and Peter and the Evangelists John, Luke, Matthew, and Mark",
    "description": "This image originally faced the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles in a late eleventh-century psalter and New Testament in Mount Athos, Vatopedi Monastery MS 762. It seems likely that in this manuscript, the scribe and illuminator were the same person.",
    "provenance": "[Folio 211 in Mount Athos, Vatopedi MS 762]; Leon Gruel, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown];  Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.",
    "date": "late 11th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/W.530.C",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
        "illuminated manuscripts",
        "folios (leaves)"
    ],
    "iiifBase": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.530.C.211V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "thumbnailUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.530.C.211V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/CPS_W.530.C.211V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "imageCount": 2,
    "pageCount": 2,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 14.7,
            "height": 10
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "Folio H: 5 13/16 x W: 3 15/16 in. (14.7 x 10 cm)"
}

{
    "cul": "Byzantine; Christian",
    "style": "Byzantine",
    "med": "ink and pigments on high quality, exceptionally white and thin parchment",
    "creator_ids": [
        "6640"
    ],
    "collection_ids": [
        "MSS",
        "MED"
    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
        "2289",
        "63",
        "358",
        "1957"
    ]
}

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    "seq": 2,
    "pageIndex": 0,
    "type": "photo",
    "url": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/raw/CPS_W.530.C.211V_Fp_DD.jpg",
    "mediaId": "cce3af0748a1e363"
}