miniaturist

[ UK /mˈɪnɪt‍ʃəɹˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail
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  • If Fred Tomaselli (b. 1956) had lived during the Byzantine era, he might have been a mosaicist; during the Middle Ages, a miniaturist — a painter of fantastical scenes densely woven out of flora and fauna — decorating the margins of illuminated manuscripts. Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
  • He also likes to eat: miniaturist descriptions of the evolving food landscape are pin-sharp. Times, Sunday Times
  • Set in the world of miniaturists and illuminators in the Ottoman empire, the novel is constructed around the debate between medieval Western and Islamic art concerning true artistic meaning.
  • Maria Felice Tibaldi, a celebrated miniaturist, was represented by a small 1748 watercolor reproduction of her husband Pierre Subleyras's enormous Feast in the House of Simon the Pharisee.
  • If Fred Tomaselli (b. 1956) had lived during the Byzantine era, he might have been a mosaicist; during the Middle Ages, a miniaturist — a painter of fantastical scenes densely woven out of flora and fauna — decorating the margins of illuminated manuscripts. Prospecting Some Personal Landscapes
  • The ‘distance’ between him and his work is different from that of a professional artist, but more like a miniaturist or a naive artist, fanatical about detail.
  • Hunt is a careful miniaturist, capturing moods and places in just a few sentences. Book World: 'Mr. Chartwell' reviewed by Ron Charles
  • Just who is the miniaturist who is crafting items for the doll's house? Times, Sunday Times
  • Westerners are constantly surprised and sometimes delighted by the casual approach of the miniaturist to his art.
  • Pfaender took part in the failed revolution of 1848 and was forced to flee to London where he worked as a miniaturist and painter to make ends meet, he added.
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