There are a couple of dozen micro miniatures in the museum, each one in rich detail.
Called micro miniatures, the artwork is so small that it cannot be seen with the naked eye.
The manuscript from circa 1465 was illuminated with large miniatures for Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy.
Cars and apothecary items were fun to collect, but the miniatures offered a chance to gather one-of-a-kind items.
The limner had shown the customs collector some miniatures of children, hoping to change his mind, but Tuttle merely shook his head.
The 18 piece miniatures were shipped off to Propshop Modelmakers in London to be assembled, painted, chromed and outfitted with fake bullet holes.
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In the artist's studio, a missing egg containing miniatures of the Empress Alexandra and the Grand Duchess Olga became "Monarch Jubilee, " from 2008.
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Think an RPG experience with miniatures set in an RTS world, with nation building and cooperative boss encounters as part of the ensemble.
But the vibrant colors and stances of the figures are uniquely Indian, drawing on the hues and poses of ancient Indian miniatures and sculpture.
The spectrum of tastes and textures in these elegant miniatures was so complete that without being told, I might not have noticed the absence of anything bovine.
Her slender fingers drew miniatures around the curves, painstaking brushstrokes.
Gamers, put down your controllers, your dice, or your miniatures.
In these books, the images transform the painted page, with ever more inventive borders and miniatures crowding out the almost redundant words and showing the reader a vision of the Bible.
Sultan Mehmet II, the conqueror of Constantinople, wanted his portrait painted and since Islamic painting focused on calligraphy and miniatures, being painted by a top Venetian portraitist was the ultimate luxury.
His latest album, The Toys of Men, functions as a career summary of sorts, with Clarke delivering a series of solo acoustic bass miniatures that reference past efforts while functioning with impressive restraint.
When Lugt died in 1970 at the age of 86, on Rembrandt's birthday (July 15th), the foundation held 6, 000 Old Master drawings, thousands of etchings and artists letters, as well as the miniatures and frames.
Another Singer favorite enlivens a case of miniatures a delectable palm-size morsel of earthenware from the first half of the 8th century, during the Tang dynasty, energetically depicting two musicians precariously perched on the back of a braying camel.
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Wadsworth had first inquired, by pointing to his fee scale, if the collector of customs wished for a portrait of the entire family, matching portraits of himself and his wife, or a joint portrait, with perhaps miniatures of the children.
Beauty rolls in waves and seethes in eddies throughout the installations of dazzling ceramics, noble architectural fragments and statuary, fabulous carpets, enchanting miniatures from manuscripts and albums, and the extraordinarily varied and elegant calligraphy of handmade Korans, along with choice fabrics, metalwork, jewelry, and weapons.
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