miniature
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- noun
- /ˈmɪnɪtʃʊr/
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miniatura
- Our Lady Mary with her Beloved Son, frontispiece miniature, manuscript of the Combat of the Apostles, late fifteenth century.
- manuscript miniatures
- painted miniatures
- page miniatures
Examples
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My new brother was a painter of miniatures.
Fiction book (1999) -
Whether this and other narrative scenes on seals may be miniatures of large wall paintings.
Academic text (1993) -
When was the miniature painted?
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In this Italian miniature on the left from a manuscript, it's God the Father who appears, not instead of Christ.
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In painting, there is the mural, and there is also the miniature.
Fiction book (1999) -
With this book, the author claims on the title page, one can "easily learn to paint miniatures without a master."
Academic text (1993) -
Letters and miniatures appear frequently in contemporary genre paintings as tokens of love.
Academic text (2011) -
Taken together, the Cantigas miniatures provide the best graphic record we have of the life and society of thirteenth-century Europe.
Academic text (1993) -
The twelve matching, high-backed chairs each had an identical crest in miniature inlaid at the top.
Fiction book (1995) -
The old manuscript contained beautiful miniatures that illustrated the biblical stories.
Synonyms
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A small painting that decorates a page in a medieval book
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A small tropical plant with fan-shaped leaves, thin stems, and loose fibers at the leaf bases
How Small
Surface Forms
Etymology
A miniature in old books was a small, detailed painting often made with red pigment called minium, which is why the name first meant a tiny picture. So in art a miniature is a 'small painting' with fine detail.