{"data": {"id": 109340, "accession_number": "1927.487", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Story of Perseus and Andromeda, early 1500s. Netherlands, early 16th century. Tapestry weave: wool and silk; overall: 320.5 x 446.8 cm (126 3/16 x 175 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust, 1927.487", "current_location": null, "title": "Story of Perseus and Andromeda", "creation_date": "early 1500s", "creation_date_earliest": 1500, "creation_date_latest": 1525, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Netherlands, early 16th century"], "technique": "tapestry weave: wool and silk", "support_materials": [], "department": "Textiles", "collection": "Textiles", "type": "Tapestry", "measurements": "Overall: 320.5 x 446.8 cm (126 3/16 x 175 7/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 3.205, "height_inch": 126, "height_inch_fraction": 0.1875, "width": 4.468, "width_inch": 175, "width_inch_fraction": 0.875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 312517, "title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition", "description": "<i>The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).", "opening_date": "1936-06-26T04:00:00"}, {"id": 441481, "title": "Gallery One 2012", "description": "<i>Gallery One 2012</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).", "opening_date": "2012-12-12T05:00:00"}], "legacy": []}, "provenance": [{"description": "Sir Edgar Speyer [1862\u20131932], England", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(P. W. French & Co., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131927", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1927\u2013", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "The Greek mythological story of Perseus and Andromeda is represented here as a quest for a maiden, read from right to left in three sections. At the upper right, Andromeda has been chained to a rock by her parents, at the lower right, as a sacrifice to a dragon sent by Poseidon, god of the sea. In the center on a millefleur (floral) ground, Perseus on horseback kills the dreaded dragon. Within the castle at the left, Perseus kneels before an altar, and at the far left, he marries Andromeda.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80001628"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1927.487-story-of-perseus-and"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Milliken, William M. \"\"Perseus and Andromeda,\" a Gothic Tapestry in the John Huntington Collection.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 14, no. 3 (March 1927): 34\u201340.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: 34\u201340", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25137007"}, {"citation": "Siple, Ella S. \"A Late Gothic Tapestry at Cleveland.\" <em>The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs</em> 51, no. 293 (August 1927): 99\u2013100.", "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 99\u2013100", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/863270"}, {"citation": "\"A Gothic Tapestry.\" <em>The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs</em> 51, no. 294 (September 1927): 149\u2013150.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 149\u2013150", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/863434"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1928.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 24-25", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1928/page/n28"}, {"citation": "Gibson, Katharine. <em>The Goldsmith of Florence; A Book of Great Craftsmen.</em> New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 3", "url": null}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.", "page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 186", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n44"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 72", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n96"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 72", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n96"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. 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