{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"4587"},"invno":{"label":"Inventory number","value":"5838"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"From the mid-nineteenth century, the art market speculated with the appeal of monumental paintings. The aim was to use them to attract potential buyers to sales exhibitions. For several weeks in 1873, the Vienna World\u2019s Fair transformed the city into an artistic center of international standing. The gallerists Miethke and Wawra commissioned a history painting from Hans Makart intending to display this at the rival exhibition to the official art show. The artist did not disappoint. He presented Venice Pays Homage to Caterina Cornaro\u2014a symbolic depiction of the city\u2019s reverence toward the doge\u2019s daughter married to the king of Cyprus. The work is the epitome of the \u201csensation picture\u201d\u2014a virtuoso piece intended for a mass audience that was considered to have served its purpose if it became the talk of the town."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil on canvas"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":["https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/139242/full"]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Venice Pays Homage to Caterina Cornaro"},"classification":{"label":"Genre","value":"Painting"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/139242/full"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1872/1873"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"10304196"},"iiifManifest":{"value":"https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-4587/manifest"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"400 × 1060 cm"}}]}