miniature paintings
Pocket-sized painted portraits
Miniature paintings are highly detailed artworks executed on a very small scale, traditionally painted on vellum, ivory, or paper with fine brushes.
The term covers both the Persian and Mughal manuscript illumination tradition and the European portrait miniatures popular before photography—small enough to hold in the hand or wear in a locket.
The museum's collection includes Elizabethan miniature paintings of courtiers.
- temperaEgg-yolk painting method
- washClean using liquid
- natural pigmentsColoring agents from nature
- jewel tonesRich colors from precious stones
- lineContinuous mark or queue
gouache · illuminated manuscripts · stippling · gold · calligraphy · glazing · detail · religious iconography · frame · ivory · parchment · brush · magnifying glass · dot · Mughal Empire · historical events · court life · book of hours
- miniaturesfigurines, figurine, scale models, dollhouses, dollhouse
- Mughal IndiaMughals, Taj Mahal, Peacock Throne, Akbar, Shah Jahan
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- illuminationillumination, illuminated manuscripts, illuminators, historiated initials, rubrics
- Indian miniaturesmanuscript illustrations, gouache, natural pigments, vermilion, paper marbling
- Indian painting
miniature paintingsmurals
Large wall paintings
wall paintings · ceiling paintings · frescoes · cycloramas · altarpieces
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