Miniature painting is an Islamic painting art. Also known as book painting art from its origins, miniature is considered a royalty art having its golden age during the 16th century. It is characterised by shining colours and gold-silver paintings.
Miniature painting
Small, finely wrought portrait executed on vellum, prepared card, copper, or ivory. The name is derived from the minium, or red lead, used by the medieval illuminators.
Miniature Painting for Fine Artists
What makes a painting good or bad -- the discussion continues
Quotes from Paul Cezanne
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Jain miniature painting. School of art in Gujarat, W. India, ill. Jain religious scriptures. Flat colours were used against red or (from c. 1500) blue grounds; faces were shown in profile but with both eyes. Painting was on palm leaf up to c.
Mother Goddess A miniature painting of the Pahari style, dating to the eighteenth century. Pahari and Rajput miniatures share many common features.
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There has long been a global market for Indian miniature paintings, sculptures, and other antiquities, but interest in the country's modern art has lagged.
One of the main sources (a parallel text, as it were) is Indian miniature painting, of which he has long been a collector.
The miniature painting of the Irish, Gallic, and German monks was a melding together of painting and calligraphy. From the scrolls and flourishes purely calligraphic human forms are constructed.
" An objet d'art is something small and decorative - such as a miniature painting, or porcelain statuette, or the hand-print your 4-year-old child made in wet plaster and decorated with glitter when it had dried - that has artistic value.
Some other examples of the elevation of daily events as a worthwhile subject for art can be found in Persian miniature painting and is also the subject of many Japanese woodblock prints.
Persian Miniature, Abkar Hunting, 1590
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Limning An archaic term meaning to draw or paint. Used particularly with reference to manuscript illumination and miniature painting,
Lining A conservation term for placing a new canvas on the back of a deteriorating original oil painting.
Objet d'art
A French term meaning art object; it is often used by English speakers to mean a work of art which is small in size, such as a miniature painting, netsuke, a statuette, or vase. Also see bibelot and masterpiece.
handwritten book on vellum or parchment, usually medieval, decorated with miniature painting, borders, and decorative capital letters; hence illumination. Exemplars: Book of Kells, Lindisfarne Gospels, Book of Durrow.
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In ivories, as in mosaics, enamels or miniature painting it would be difficult to find a dozen examples, from the age of Constantine onwards, other than sacred ones or of sacred symbolism.
 See also: Miniature, Painting, Expression, Manuscript, Greek
  
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