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        "accession_number": "1972.72",
        "share_license_status": "CC0",
        "tombstone": "Dancing Dwarf, 100 BCE\u2013100 CE. Italy(?), Roman. Bronze; overall: 4.4 cm (1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Purchase Fund by Exchange, 1972.72",
        "current_location": "103 Roman",
        "title": "Dancing Dwarf",
        "creation_date": "100 BCE\u2013100 CE",
        "creation_date_earliest": -100,
        "creation_date_latest": 100,
        "artists_tags": [],
        "culture": [
            "Italy(?), Roman"
        ],
        "technique": "bronze",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "Greek and Roman Art",
        "collection": "GR - Roman",
        "type": "Sculpture",
        "measurements": "Overall: 4.4 cm (1 3/4 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "overall": {
                "height": 0.044,
                "height_inch": 1,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.75
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
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        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 301752,
                    "title": "Year in Review: 1972",
                    "description": "<i>Year in Review: 1972</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973).",
                    "opening_date": "1973-02-27T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 442557,
                    "title": "Ancient Art of Greece and Rome",
                    "description": "<i>Ancient Art of Greece and Rome</i>. Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA (organizer) (September 16-December 29, 1979).",
                    "opening_date": "1979-09-16T04:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "Allentown Art Museum, September 16-December 29, 1979, \"Aspects of Ancient Greece,\" 223-23.",
                    "opening_date": "1979-09-16T00:00:00"
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            ]
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        "provenance": [
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                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1972-",
                "sortorder": 2
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        "did_you_know": "People with dwarfism were favorite subjects in Hellenistic art, and then became popular in the Roman Empire.",
        "early_education_description": null,
        "artlens_description": null,
        "description": "This small, bearded figure wears a twisted sash around his hips and has an exaggerated phallus. He stands with his left arm raised and his right arm on his waist. His left hand is missing but could have once held<em> krotala</em> (ancient clapper-like instruments), as other examples of dancing dwarves hold. People with dwarfism in art are typically rendered with a large head, widely spaced eyes, sharply raised eyebrows, and a depressed nasal bridge, all seen on this figure. This object may have been used as an apotropaic, or protective, amulet to ward off evil.",
        "external_resources": {
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                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60759766"
            ],
            "internet_archive": [
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1972.72-dancing-dwarf"
            ]
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Allentown Art Museum, Gloria Ferrari, and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway. <em>Aspects of Ancient Greece: An Exhibition Organized by the Allentown Art Museum with the Cooperation of Gloria Ferrari Pinney and Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway ... Allentown Art Museum, September 16 Through December 30, 1979.</em> [Allentown, Pa.]: The Museum, 1979.",
                "page_number": "Pp. 222-3, cat. 108.",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \u201cThe Year in Review for 1972.\u201d <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 60, no. 3 (1973): 63\u2013115.",
                "page_number": "Pp. 67 (ill.), 102, no. 2.",
                "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25093732"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Mass\u00e9glia, Jane<em>. Body Language in Hellenistic Art and Society</em>. First edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned p. 274-275, reproduced p. 276 fig. 5.6",
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            }
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        "updated_at": "2026-07-25 11:42:21.148000"
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