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NUDE WOMAN RESTING
Persian miniature, ca. 1620/24
Museum of Art and History, Geneva, Switzerland
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"As I read my horoscope from the book of love,
suddenly, from the sage’s burning heart came these words:
Happy is he who has in his house a woman beautiful as the moon,
and whose night will seem to last a year!"
Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat (quatrain 401)
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