{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"4389"},"locationssite":{"label":"Location","value":"Upper Belvedere"},"invno":{"label":"Inventory number","value":"5640"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Some of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt\u2019s \u201cCharacter Heads\u201d appear realistic and evoke familiar emotions. Others are clearly distorted, even grotesquely contorted. The most radical case is this head: the lower part of the face has been shaped into something like a pointed beak. The work is made of alabaster, a gypsum stone similar to marble that can be carved with great precision and easily polished.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt is still unclear what motivated Messerschmidt to create these objects, so unusual for their time. Their fascination, however, is beyond doubt. Artists have repeatedly found in them a source of inspiration for their own work."},"title2":{"label":"Alternative Title","value":"Zweiter Schnabelkopf"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Alabaster, mottled brownish stone"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"1"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":["https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/165293/full"]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"\"Character Head\" No. 6"},"classification":{"label":"Genre","value":"Sculpture"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/internal/media/dispatcher/65368/full"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1777/1781"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"11575901"},"iiifManifest":{"value":"https://sammlungtest.belvedere.at/apis/iiif/presentation/v2/1-objects-4389/manifest"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"42,5 x 26 x 24,5 cm"}}]}