Miniature
See also: Miniature (homonymy)
A miniature is an image or a table low-size carried out with meticulousness.
History
The miniature word comes from Latin miniare who means to write with the Minium. This art indeed owes its name with the Minium , a Oxyde of Plomb being used as orange Pigment red. With the the Middle Ages (Ve - Ve century), the calligrapher who used this oxide was called miniator , in Latin. When this practice developed with the use of gold and the money in the pigments, this art becomes that of the Enluminure. The minator becomes an illuminator.Different Technique S was used, active Oil-base paint on sheet of Cuivre to the Aquarelle and the Vélin, but it is primarily the Gouache on sheet of Ivoire which dominated the production of the XVIIIe and XIXe centuries. Let us tons clear exploited the transparencies of the watercolour to make burst the whiteness of the eburnean support .
Before the Photo, the miniature represented the only means of making known a remote face. It was exchanged between been engaged which had never been seen in the arranged marriages; it was offered between separate parents; it could even be used for the police force to diffuse a description. It is perhaps a miniature which was used with the police force as Fouché to identify and stop Cadoudal.
The miniaturists were thus extremely required and there was great talent of it. One among them, Isabey, raises David, was the Master of ceremony Sacre of Napoleon.
Models
The miniature term is also used to indicate a small-scale Modèle, a Maquette. It is associated more and more under the terms of Vitrine and Diorama which is modes of presentation of these models often representing scenes of the everyday life.
Related articles
- Nicholas Hilliard, painter miniaturist of the XVIe century
- Daniel Saint, painter miniaturist of the XIXe century
External bonds
; Miniatures cyclists- Tour de France of the miniatures cyclists figurines of the turn of France in miniature
; Museum of the miniature of Montélimar
- Museum of the miniature of Montélimar Collection and exposure of miniatures.
; Miniatures of the Middle Ages
- the Middle Ages in light by the Management of the Book of the Ministry for the Culture, France
; Portaits Miniature miniatures
- History of the portrait in miniature
- with the public records of Canada
; Miniatures models
- Miniaturama: techniques and examples
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