{"data": {"id": 147938, "accession_number": "1974.39", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Interior of the Pantheon, Rome, 1747. Giovanni Paolo Panini (Italian, 1691\u20131765). Oil on canvas; framed: 147.5 x 120 x 5 cm (58 1/16 x 47 1/4 x 1 15/16 in.); unframed: 127 x 97.8 cm (50 x 38 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. 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PANINI. 1747.\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 302084, "title": "Year in Review: 1974", "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).", "opening_date": "1975-03-11T04:00:00"}, {"id": 310040, "title": "Collecting Drawings in England", "description": "<i>Collecting Drawings in England</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1987-January 17, 1988).", "opening_date": "1987-11-03T05:00:00"}, {"id": 181802, "title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. 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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 12, 2012-March 5, 2017).", "opening_date": "2012-12-12T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Year in Review for 1974.</em> The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).", "opening_date": "1975-03-11T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Tyrwhitt-Drake (\"Shardeloes,\" Amersham, Buckinghamshire, UK) (sold, Christie\u2019s, London, July 25, 1952, no. 148, to Reder)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "1952 -    Reder", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "David Koetser (New York, New York)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "- 1969   Walter P. Chrysler", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "1969 - 1974   Eugene V. Thaw (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art.", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 5}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Panini's depictions of contemporary and ancient Rome were popular with foreigners who visited the city on their Grand Tours.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Created as a temple under the Roman emperor Hadrian around the year AD 125, the Pantheon became a Christian church in 609. Significant restoration took place in the early 1700s, a period of renewed attention to early Christian monuments. The site was a major monument of antiquity, an active church, and its portico, visible through the door, held the most important art fair in the city. Panini shows the complexity of this public space by representing foreign tourists, local churchgoers, Roman nobles, and artists mingling under the dome.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60472658"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1974.39-interior-of-the-pant"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Portland Art Museum. <em>Paintings from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. </em>An Exhibition Organized 1956 by the Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR: Portland Art Association, 1956.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 38", "url": null}, {"citation": "Grieg, T. P. \"In the Auction Rooms.\" <em>The Connoisseur </em>CXXX (1959): 137-138.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 138", "url": null}, {"citation": "Olsen, Harald. <em>Italian Paintings and Sculpture in Denmark</em>. Copenhagen, Denmark: Munksgaard, 1961.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 82", "url": null}, {"citation": "Arisi, Ferdinando. <em>Gian Paolo Panini</em>. 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