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Ms. Codex 902 - [Chansonnier]
It’s time for some French poetry! This manuscript features a collection of 310 poems by Guillaume de Machaut, Oton de Grandson, Brisebare de Douai, Eustache Deschamps, Philippe de Vitry, and others. It was composed in France, some time around 1400 CE.
Do you want to read them? Click here for the facsimile (or look here additional information).
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1517-ab. 1518 Floriano Ferramola - Meeting of the Betrothed
(Brescia Museum Foundation)
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The Echo, 1868. Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 – 1879)
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Gipsy Girl
unknown artist
Harris Museum & Art Gallery
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Portrait of Charles Hamilton, 8th Early of Haddington, Joshua Reynolds
Medium: oil,canvas
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“In connection with the marriage fetes given in honour of the Grand Duchess Maria, a little incident occurred… A young chamberlain… managed to incur the wrath of the Emperor, and exposed his superior to a rather severe reprimand: it was at the ball of the Grand Duchess Helena [wife of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich].
The Emperor [Nicholas I] was talking with the Austrian ambassador. The chamberlain received from the Grand Duchess Maria an order to carry her invitation for this ambassador to dance with her. In his zeal, the unfortunate debutant broke the circle of courtiers… and boldly approached His Majesty’s person, saying to the ambassador, “Monsieur le Comte, Madame la Duchesse de Leuchtenberg requests that you will dance with her the first polonaise.
The Emperor, shocked with the ignorance of the new chamberlain, addressed him in an elevated tone of voice, saying, “You have been appointed to a post, sir; learn, therefore, how to fulfil its duties; in the first place, my daughter is not the Duchess of Leuchtenberg–she is called the Grand Duchess Maria; and in the second place, you ought to know that no one interrupts me when I am conversing with any individual.”
–Astolphe, Marquis de Custine
*Detail from a portrait of Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Duchess of Leuchtenberg, by Christina Roberston.
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Lady of Quality
Francis Williams Topham (1808–1877)
Gallery Oldham
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Lady Evelyn Cavendish, 1902, John Singer Sargent
Medium: oil,canvas
https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-singer-sargent/lady-evelyn-cavendish-1902
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Nicolas de Largillière, Konrad Detlef Graf von Dehn (détail)
1724
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Russian fantasy bride ensemble, Bob Mackie, 1986. (this dress is not in the Kent State University Museum’s collection but was loaned by the designer for our 1987 exhibition “Brides, Brides, Brides!”)
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Pierre Charles Comte - The secret rendezvous (detail)
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