Small Wonders
Small Wonders

Author: Lisa Ellis

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-05

Total Pages: 112

ISBN-13: 9781894243902

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"Groundbreaking research on sixteenth-century miniature boxwood carvings in the Thomson Collection of European Art at the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Morgan Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art."--

Persian Miniatures: A Picture Book
Persian Miniatures: A Picture Book

Author: Maurice Sven Dimand

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1940-04-25

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13:

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Persian Miniatures is a picture book showcasing the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection of popular Persian illustrations from the 14th to early 17th century. The book contains an introduction by M. S. Dimand which briefly explains the history and importance of these Persian miniatures and the artists who made them

European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
European Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0870998080

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A catalog of the museum's collection of some 300 European portrait miniatures dating from the early 16th to the mid-19th centuries. Each piece is described in detail and illustrated with bandw and color photos. Includes an overview of the history of miniature painting, notes on artists, and indices of artists, collectors, makers, and sitters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Miniature Metropolis
Miniature Metropolis

Author: Andreas Huyssen

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2015-04-06

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 0674416724

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Andreas Huyssen explores the history and theory of metropolitan miniatures—short prose pieces about urban life written for European newspapers. His fine-grained readings open vistas into German critical theory and the visual arts, revealing the miniature to be one of the few genuinely innovative modes of spatialized writing created by modernism.