Inside A Letter Box

Édouard Manet, Young Woman with a Book.  1875.  Oil on canvas, 24.45 x 32.39 cm.   

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Anonymous composer, Riant regard, acompli en doulceur (Laughing glance, perfect in sweetness). The Copenhagen Chansonnier, 14 recto. France, 15th c.  Parchment, 47 ff.; 5 x 12 cm. 

The text and its translation, sheet music, and a commentary on this piece are available at Peter Woetmann Christoffersen’s Open Edition Copenhagen Chansonnier.

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Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez,  Mujer (Sibila con tábula rasa), Female Figure (Sibyl with Tabula Rasa).  Oil on canvas, 64 x 58 cm.

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Giovannino de’Grassi, Gothic letters from a model book. 1390. Illumination on parchment, 26 x 18.5 cm.